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- From: heidi@wales.net.com (Heidi Wolf)
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.195826.17180@unet.net.com>
- Summary: local highway-beautification suggestions
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- References: <1992Dec24.023537.11215@panix.com> <1992Dec24.172929.13284@u.washington.edu> <JMC.92Dec24112625@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:58:26 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec24112625@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I think the statue on Interstate 280 south of San Francisco should be
- >returned to Easter Island.
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- ...and that bizarre humpy house a few miles up the road should be
- returned to the deserts of Mars whence it came.
-
- Heidi Wolf
-
-
- P.S. I agree with Prof. McCarthy that it's not a very attractive
- statue, but I'm quite fond of Fra Junipero Serra and therefore
- am willing to put up with this rather kitschy interpretation.
-
- [Book reference: I've been reading NAMES ON THE LAND by George
- Stewart, published originally in the 1940s, per a recommendation
- in a book of essays by Wallace Stegner. I'm at the beginning
- of the book right now, trekking up the California coast with
- the early Spanish explorers. Next we travel up the Eastern
- Seaboard with some Englishmen, and subsequently across the
- Great Plains with pioneers of every nationality and era.
- A good pick-up-and-put-down book for those like me who want
- something enjoyable but undemanding after the holiday whirl.]
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