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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Alister
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 07:53:53 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Sep14.060830.19197@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep14.060830.19197@cs.rose-hulman.edu> waldbyjf@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (persimmon) writes:
- >
- >As we drove over the bridge, I saw it. If I had blinked I would have missed
- >it. Almost imperceptably, Alister's mouth twitched upwards on the side
- >facing me.
-
- [etc.]
-
- Sometimes, reading the gospel according to Rose-Hulman, I'm
- tempted to coin a new phrase. "Cargo-Cult Bizarre," I'd say.
-
- People from all walks of life would be astounded at my
- cleverness. I would find little wreaths of grass each morning
- on my doorstep, laid there by grateful Somalis who were pulled
- through the horrors of famine by nothing but my warm, gentle
- wit. In Mobile, the faithful would found a church in my name;
- on Easter Island, the great stone heads would sprout
- gold-rimmed glasses and Lightnin' Hopkins T-shirts. I would
- cure the sick in Sicily and raise the dead in Chad.
-
- But then I realized how many facets of this unstable reality
- can benefit from analogy to the infamous Cargo Cults of
- Polynesia. And I found humility.
-
- So I won't complain. Keep waving those paddles, Julian.
- Sooner or later, the planes will come.
-
- c
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