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- Subject: Re: Explain this group
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.091532.45851@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- From: rminor@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:15:32 CST
- References: <1992Dec21.132320.14478@samba.oit.unc.edu> <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com> <1992Dec21.194238.18767@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.194238.18767@husc3.harvard.edu>, kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo) writes:
- > In article <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com>
- > columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
- >
- >>Verily, there is indeed nothing new under the sun. I could swear I've
- >>read the above sentiment, except more pithily expressed.....
- >
- > There is a beautiful formulation in a story by Erich Kastner:
- > "there is no freshly fallen snow". It goes on to explain that even
- > if you go to the top of the most faraway peak, you will find old tracks
- > in the snow that mark the passage of others.
- >
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- The initial quotation is from Ecclesiastes 1:9: "What has been is what
- will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is
- nothing new under the sun."
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