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- From: rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
- Subject: Re: Man is a...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.221432.3768@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:14:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.211744.2849@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) writes:
- >In article <C1EApt.CvD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> jwvhewit@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Guelph Erronious) writes:
- >> I was talking to someone the other day, and they said something
- >>really dumb. I can't remember what it was, but it was a perfect set-up
- >>for the "We learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature.."
- >>speech from "It conquered the World". I was about to start reciting
- >>(sometimes, you have to do mean things like that to friends, just to
- >>keep them from getting boring) when all of a sudden I realized: I can't
- >>remember it!
- >> If anyone else out there knows it, could you send me a copy?
- >>Long-winded, horrible monologues like that only come along once in a while
- >>(unless you're watching MST3K, when they come along a bit more frequently...)
- >
- >This is from memory here, so it may not be 100% accurate:
- >
- >"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature, and because of
- >it the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men
- >have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any
- >gift of perfection from outside themselves. And when men seek such
- >perfection, they find only death, fire, loss, disillusionment, the end of
- >everything that's gone forward. It can't be given, it has to be achieved.
- >There is hope. But it has to come from inside. From man himself."
- > -Peter Graves, "It Conquered the World"
- >--
- >Brian Perler bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu
- >"I wanna decide who lives and who dies"
- > -Crow T. Robot, "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," MST3K
-
- Well, the only error is "...has to come from WITHIN. From man
- himself." Otherwise, it's perfect. Good job, OTL.
-
- Ray T. Robot
-