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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.written
- Subject: Re: SF + PC
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:40:39 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- In article <C08G8v.GJK@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> msmorris@watsci.UWaterloo.ca (Mike Morris) writes:
- | Saturday, the 2nd of January, 1993
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- |Curtis Yarvin writes:
- | "Because it makes really really cool people like Ezra Pound and
- | Mortimer Adler and Allan Bloom and Kenneth Rexroth smile, and tap a
- | little jig," is not, in my perhaps-jaundiced opinion, the best approach.
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- |For starters, they are simply better read than most other people. It's
- |exactly the reason I weigh some people's opinions here more than others.
- |Those who've read an awful lot are simply going to be in a position to know.
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- If taste were knowledge, chefs would be savants.
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