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Re: Hey Odd!

From Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info>
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Subject Re: Hey Odd!
Date 2016-01-31 20:20 +0000
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On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:33:32 -0600, Odd Bodkin wrote:

> 
> What could be a better agent for the ideals of an advanced civilization 
> than the sensibility to consume only what you need, and to possess only 
> what you plan to consume?
> 

Shakespeare, King Lear:

"O, reason not the need!  our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's [is] as cheap as beast's"

You'll find it here:

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/lear.2.4.html

These are fantastic words from one of the greatest statements
in English, and perhaps world, literature.

You've got to read more, Oddy.  You are missing big pieces of
the puzzle of life.

Significantly, this utterance of Lear occurs during an exchange
with his daughter, a woman.

Yes, Oddy, your sentiments regarding books are womanish indeed.

Be a man.  Go digital.  Have your own LOC and learn to love it.

 




>>
>> I can understand the disgust that may be felt over a plane load of caviar
>> flown in from the Crimea just to satisfy the gustatory craving of some
>> do-nothing Hollywood mogul, but an indulgence in books is far more a
>> virtue than a vice.
> 
> Indulgence is the operative word here. Indulgences are excesses one 
> makes excuses for.

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Hey Odd! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 17:31 -0500
  Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 16:35 -0600
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            Re: Hey Odd! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 12:29 -0500
            Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-29 17:47 +0000
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                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-29 21:59 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 16:37 -0600
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                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-29 23:38 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 13:19 -0600
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                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 14:23 -0600
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                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-30 20:43 +0000
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                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-30 20:51 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 00:16 -0500
                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-31 05:58 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 13:29 -0600
                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-30 21:08 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 13:33 -0600
                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-31 20:20 +0000
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                Re: Hey Odd! Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-31 21:37 +0000
                Re: Hey Odd! Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 16:00 -0600
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