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Re: hekatologos 0239
Paul Renouf (paul@cozzle.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 22:50:39 +0100
In article <4rovh7$kpi@epicycle.lm.com>, Martin Helick
<rmhelick@telerama.lm.com> writes
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> 0239 Molann an obair an saor (The work commends the craftsman)
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> Because we are inseperable from the society that has molded us, we
> impart its identity to everything that we do. What then will future
> generations say about us when the ruins of our civilization are ex-
> humed? They will find no tomb of Tutankamen, no Acropolis, not even
> a Pompeii, only decomposed landfills and collapsed oil domes and a
> network of highways girdling the landscape after all need for them
> has passed. Our vanity would like them to think of of us as we like
> think of ourselves: as a great civilization gone mildly astray. But
> the evidence, alas, says otherwise, and the vision is more likely
> to be that of a nameless and irresponsible horde, as nomadic as
> reindeer, as untidy as beavers, as voracious as grizzly bears.
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> r.m.helick...hekatologos...gravitas....http://www.lm.com/~rmhelick
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Or perhaps they will be less judgmental and say we did as best we could
within the constraints of the times we lived in . . . .
--
Paul Renouf
Ambleside, England
paul@cozzle.demon.co.uk
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