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From: [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96)
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Subject: Re: dystopia, at last...
Date: 10 Sep 1995 18:21:23 GMT
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Zeitgeyser ([email protected]) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96) writes:

> > That is to say that when Sourcerer says: but this Dystopia is a good thing
> > in the long run (sort of like this Utopia is a bad thing in the long run)

> So would that make Utopia dystopiac and um ... possibly Dystopia ah
> umm ... utopian? Pardom me I seem to be getting dizzy here.

No, I was giving an example of genre fables. You know how the utopia always
turns out bad? Oh, a wonderful new world but there is ...
I thought it was interesting how Sourcerer's view is an inversion: oh,
terrible world but ...

-Omar

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