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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:04:49 EST
- Sender: Discussions about Literature <LITERARY@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: comments?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 27 Jan 1993 06:43:50 PST from <tcbowden@CLOVIS.FEL TON.CA.US>
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- On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:43:50 PST Timothy Bowden favored us with:
- > Ken Koester <MAINT2@ers.bitnet> writes:
- >
- >> On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:48 EST <myname@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU> said:
- >
- >> >>I agree wholeheartedly. It also allows a new definition of 'cultured':
- >
- >> > a cultured person is someone who can hear the William Tell Overture
- >> > and NOT think of the Lone Ranger!
- >
- >> No, that is merely a young person (-:
- >
- >Try *not* to think of the William Tell Overture, or the Lone Ranger, or
- >anything else, for instance Gertrude Stein's cannonball in a basket of
- >cotton. Ignorance is the only solution to not thinking, as well as
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- "Trying not to think of something" differs completely from "not thinking of
- something". However, the real point is that the young are not likely to have
- seen the Lone Ranger show, thus have no particular reason to associate it
- with the William Tell Overture (unless someone else has told them about it).
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