"been teaching literature for over 35 years"

David Stockhoff · 09 Sep 2013, 12:39 · from 2013-September.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 08:39:09 -0400
Subject: (urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"
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On 9/9/2013 1:19 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> Anyway, it would make literary sense if whoever or whatever made the sun cool also stopped plate tectonics (if it's stopped), and if the process that fixed one also fixed the other.

That's basically what I was getting at. If we can't settle on a 
plausible physical explanation, there's always literary magic. The black 
hole (which after all is never called that) could simply taken as a 
general negative force and the NS as a positive one.

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