In a message dated 07/26/2003 5:45:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The beauty of the Cantos is that the poet never lets you forget that there
> is a real man there living through all the shit. "Without character you will
> not be able to play on this instrument." Borders poets are a dime a dozen.
>
>

That expensive?

joe...



They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
to render the head too large for the body.  A standing military
force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
companions to liberty.  -- Thomas Jefferson


"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed
by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
want us to know."

Gore Vidal