Zeno? You mean Zena, the Warrior Princess?
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From: charles moyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Mental Psyllium/ Re: Magazine article
"Ah, the thought of what America would be like if..."
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>From: Francis Gavin <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Mental Psyllium/ Re: Magazine article
>Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 7:14 AM
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> And a friendly Anatolia for purposes of rear guard retreat. Yeah Charlie
> gettin' drafted. That'll teach their apathetic little consumerist asses
some
> humility. If nothing else their putative Xeno will be able to instruct
them
> in the hazards of eating wild honey in places where philodendra
predominate.
>
> Besides Xeno and his guys were all crack mercenaries not conscripts. You
> know, like we already have there. Advancing further to the rear each day.
>
> GAVIN
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> on 9/12/03 6:56 PM, charles moyer at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> On the other hand it is mysterious that even such mundane/urbane/insane
>> latte guzzling Laundromat troglodytes are interested in il miglior fabbro
>> at all. But I'm with Tim, reserving judgement until I can get to MacBook
>> Borders and lay me hands on the script meself.
>> Next they'll be quoting Brer Rabbit and reciting Henry Van Dyke. But
>> wait till the little bastards get drafted. That should wake them up.
Let's
>> just hope that among the present ranks there is a Xenophon. They may need
>> him. "Varus, give me back my legions!"
>>
>> "But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free,-
>> We love our land for what she is and what she is to be."
>> And it wouldn't be so awful for the rest of us to see
>> Some of these empire-building neocons hanging from a tree.
>>
>> Charles Moieh
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>>> From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Magazine article
>>> Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 9:21 AM
>>>
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>>> Well, that judgment fits the mag's "fascinating facts" approach:
>>>
>>> The age demanded an image
>>> Of its accelerated grimace...
>>>
>>> I'll have to look for a copy. I'm withholding judgment, but from what
>>> you've said and from the descriptions given on their website, it does
seem
>>> like a People Magazine for recent college grads. Something to read while
>>> sipping a latte at Starbucks or during the spin cycle at the laundromat.
>>>
>>> Tim Romano
>>>
>>> At 03:26 AM 9/12/03, Tim Bray wrote:
>>>> It says Mauberley is "perhaps Pound's finest poem."
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