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- From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.031550.2459@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:15:50 GMT
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- In article <1glpalINNgik@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >> My goodness. Who ever said that libraries were only for the poor?
- >
- >I must thank the sewer sprites of Baltimore that I somehow escaped from
- >that place.
-
- Hmm. Seems like the feeling is becoming mutual.
-
- >There's lead in them thar steam leaks. If I'd spent more
- >than a year at Johns Hopkins I believe that to this day the inside of
- >my skull would be plated with a fine film of solder.
- >
- >And lead, they say, corrodes the mind. The first sign is the infamous
- >"Homewood Shamble," but rot in the imagination cannot be far behind.
- >Fortunately I am a liberal type and well willing to compensate for the
- >handicaps of other; so I shall introduce you to the concept of a
- >"private library," which is exactly the same as yer vaunted public
- >library in all respects, save that it is not financed at gunpoint, but
- >in the same way as your local racquetball club, solder-scraping plan,
- >or slicemonger trade school.
- >
- Ah, what elegant sputum. What luxurious flummery. What a waste
- of bandwidth. If you would like to "introduce" the concept of the
- private library, then do so. I'm just afraid that by the time you
- finish thumbing through your thesaurus for that oh-so-glib bon mot, your
- audience will have fallen asleep at the console and your wit will be
- -- sigh -- wasted. The loss, the loss...
- --
- -John
-
- John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
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