wrote:
: >: > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, technical boy wrote:
: >: i see, the lumpen will not tolerate just any old atrocity to set up a
: >: Functioning Society; we can count on you, not to burn down the hermitages
: >: and monastaries.
: >History has prepared us for either eventuality. The torch has a certain
: >finality that places it further down the wish list, all things being
: >equal.
: The thugs are scouting for vittles and fixin's and a bit of rustic fun, and
: as luck might have it, a gold reliquary or two.
: And may you be spared the depredations of the civil (Henry) and the
: ideological (The Directory, The Politburo) -- I assume history has prepared
: you for that, as well.
Our older Spaniards, when pressed, will tell grim stories from not one,
but two Civil Wars: Spain's and Mexico's. We're in the U.S., in fact, due
to a magnanimous lapse on Pancho Villa's part. He'd just won the bloodiest
battle of the revolution the previous day (Torreon). Exile occurred to him
as fitting as execution in the aftermath of his victory.
In the old days Polycarp and Ignatius of Antioch made the whole affair
sound exciting, adventuresome even, but I suspect some genre flavor crept in.
Worth the price of admission in any case, now as then.
: >If it's a question of needing firewood, tho' , we can always live in tents
: >--or in a habitual and unrelenting state of mind and heart. Yer call.
: Nah. The thugs don't want yer souls, just directions to the wine cellar...
Hospitality demands no less 8-).
+ One of those tasteless Philistines
Eugene Mosburg OCD + the Art Appreciation 101 professor
[email protected] + warned you about. Elvis memorabilia,
https://www.qns.com/~mosburg + Doggies Playing Poker, shadowboxed
+ in soft black velvet while-U-wait.
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