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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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  5. Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:48:38 -0800
  6. Sender:       Discussions about Literature <LITERARY@UCF1VM.BITNET>
  7. From:         djl@MAILHOST.PP.PDX.EDU
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  12. ...every spoken language is in a sense a corruption, a corruption of the
  13. schoolmaster's dream.  What these old schoolmasters call "correct" Czech is
  14. a language deader than Latin.  If you listen to the few extremists who
  15. actually try to speak that lingo, you feel as if you are listening to robots.
  16. The fact is that much beauty comes from corruption, and also much that is
  17. interesting.  Paradise without Eve's sin would have been a dull place.
  18.                                             -- Josef Skvorecky
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