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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: NEXT DECADE
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:51:52 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1993Jan9.235008.22827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <93010.104109BAHRIR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- In article <93010.104109BAHRIR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <BAHRIR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >
- >Guess back in the year 1000 it was the 'gosh we're still
- >here!' decade :-)
-
- Actually, nobody seemed to be expecting the end of the world in AD 1000.
- The idea that they _did_ appears to be a Renaissance fiction, just like
- "droit de seigneur" (which apparently didn't happen either: I mean, not
- as something that happened *legally.*)
-
- Those interested could read CENTURY'S END by Hillel Schwarz, which came
- out a couple of years ago and is very well-researched.
-
- Dorothy J. Heydt
- UC Berkeley
- cozzlab@garnet.berkeley.edu
-
- Disclaimer: UCB and the Cozzarelli lab are not responsible for my
- opinions, and in fact I don't think they know I have any.
-