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- From: kridnix@faraday.rice.edu (Alan Cheville)
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- Organization: Rice University
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:42:39 GMT
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- I came across this over a decade ago in a short story.
- I would love to be able to find that book again...
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- "For we that are taxpayers as well as immortal
- souls must live our lives by politic evasions and
- catchwords that fret away our lives as moths waste
- a garment; we fall insensibly to common sense as
- to a drug- and it dulls and kills all that within
- us is fine and rebellious and unreasonable."
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- Alan Cheville # For this is the school of Babylon
- Electrical Engineering # And at its hands we learn
- Rice. U. # To walk into the furnaces
- Houston # And whistle as we burn.
- # -T. Blackburn
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