In a message dated 07/26/2003 5:45:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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