Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-08 Thread Thomas Schall
A great book! I really do like Kiplings books but only know them in german so I cannot help with quotes. Thomas Am Die, 2004-06-08 um 06.53 schrieb Jon Murphy: > Yes, but in this country if you ask someone: "Do you like Kipling?", you'll > get an answer: "I don't know, how does one kiple?". Hen

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-07 Thread Jon Murphy
Yes, but in this country if you ask someone: "Do you like Kipling?", you'll get an answer: "I don't know, how does one kiple?". Hence the dictum. RT Was this from the Man Who Would Be King? His mistake was not knowing the country he was in. JWM

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Turovsky
Yes, but in this country if you ask someone: "Do you like Kipling?", you'll get an answer: "I don't know, how does one kiple?". Hence the dictum. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > which would be Wittgenstein ... > Thomas >>> if, however, criticism of this behavior

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-06 Thread Thomas Schall
which would be Wittgenstein ... Thomas Am Mit, 2004-06-02 um 13.23 schrieb Roman Turovsky: > > if, however, criticism of this behavior is based on an understanding > > that "they (the coalition) should know better" then i suggest you read > > rudyard kipling's "white man's burden " to experience

Re: Moot (off Topic)

2004-06-02 Thread Roman Turovsky
Not really. Found myself in opposition to W. way too often, especially on music RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:21:17 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Moot (off Topic) > > Are you

Moot (off Topic)

2004-06-02 Thread RichardTomBeck
Are you also a Wittgestein fan, Roman? I love his stuff, one of the best writers of German there has been. Cheers Tom --

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-02 Thread Roman Turovsky
> if, however, criticism of this behavior is based on an understanding > that "they (the coalition) should know better" then i suggest you read > rudyard kipling's "white man's burden " to experience again the > pomposity and embarrassment of such a notion. Re Kipling: Wovon man nicht sprechen kann

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread timothy motz
Bill, I don't think your question about the photos vs. the actual incidents carries much weight. The world was not really stirred against the Holocaust until photos and newsreels were taken by Allied forces liberating the camps. It was known for years before that the Nazis were moving trainloads

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread Howard Posner
Bill wrote: > my server couldn't connect to the sweeping generalization site you > mention. > > go there often, do you? Not necessary. These days I get free home delivery.

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread bill
dear howard - my server couldn't connect to the sweeping generalization site you mention. go there often, do you? pip-pip - bill On Martedì, giu 1, 2004, at 21:08 Europe/Rome, Howard Posner wrote: > You wrote: > >> i'd like to know if those who criticize the coalition for their human >> righ

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread Howard Posner
You wrote: > i'd like to know if those who criticize the coalition for their human > rights abuses base their criticisms on some very disturbing photos or > on the deeds that were committed in them. That's an easy question to answer. All people who take up the lute because it's rare and arcane,

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread bill
very good ariel, i take your point. complimenti - bill On Martedì, giu 1, 2004, at 19:04 Europe/Rome, Ariel Abramovich wrote: > From my humble point of view, you know what's the problem of bringing > subjects like all this to the forum? > We (the members of this list) don't have the minimum neces

Re: Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread Ariel Abramovich
>From my humble point of view, you know what's the problem of bringing subjects like all this to the forum? We (the members of this list) don't have the minimum necessary elements for a serious and productive debate about politics, nor a simple fair and productive exchange. In other words: Our perc

Moot (off topic)

2004-06-01 Thread bill
on the human rights watch organization site, buried under 7 pages of criticism of us involvement in iraq and the human rights abuses committed by the coalition forces since their invasion of the country, is an article entitled "Iraq: The Death Penalty, Executions, and 'Prison Cleansing'" from m