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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
- Subject: Re: Robbins - a low volume newsnet
- Date: 12 Jan 93 09:53:28
- Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- In-reply-to: stone@bradley.bradley.edu's message of Mon, 11 Jan 93 19:28:12 GMT
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- I was amazed when I discovered there was a Robbins newsgroup. It
- sounded like something of a contradiction in terms. Evidently a
- Robbins fan _can_ be information literate, or this group wouldn't be
- here; but then, I suppose embracing contradictions is probably the
- biggest theme behind the lot of the books...
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- "To specialize is to brush one tooth."
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- Chris
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- --
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- on sighting mathematicians it should unhook the algebra from their
- minds and replace it with with poetry; on sighting poets it should
- unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
-