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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
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- Subject: Re: A hug request and a general growl at the world
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.154017.21202@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:40:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.020546.26302@news.cs.brandeis.edu> shogan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
- >seamus@ravel.udel.edu (James G Dilmore) writes:
- >>I noticed that we have a Pooh now. and a Piglet too. Very appropriate since
- >>I just read The Te of Piglet and may reread the Tao of Pooh. Amusing books.
- >So do you recommend them? I saw both at the bookstore...they looked
- >interesting...
- >
- The Tao of Pooh is certainly worth it, the Te of Piglet I can't comment
- on. They're not exactly easy to get hold of over here -- a friend of
- mine borrowed The Tao off his father, which is how I know about it.
-
- >>[stuff deleted by mistake <sigh>]...amusing. I feel like Eeyore to day.
- >>But hopefully I will return to my normal old TIgger self. Tired grin
- >>verging on cynicism and resignation (O GOD I NEED HUGS) I feel _very_ old.
- >I was always fond of Eeyore...but I must admit...Tigger's a wonderful
- >thing...<grin> (So I just bought my 2-yr-old niece the Pooh tape about
- >Tigger for Xmas. I've been bouncing, flouncing and trouncing ever
- >since. Now that tune is running through everyone's mind, isn't it...)
- >
- Someone once told me that, over a computer, I was very much like Eeyore.
- She didn't say whether it applied to real life, too. I have to say, as
- someone brought up with A A Milne, rather than Disney, I find what the
- latter has done to the characters rather, well, inappropriate....
-
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