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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:06:37 MET
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- From: Maler <maler@IMAG.FR>
- Subject: Re: PCT Fanatics
- In-Reply-To: Marken@COURIER4.AERO.ORG "PCT Fanatics" (Dec 23, 14:19)
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- [From Oded Maler (921224)]
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- * [From Rick Marken (921223.1300)]
- *
- * OK, nobody's in the office; I should be home cuddled up by the
- * Christmas tree (yes, I prefer celebrating the apocryphal birth of
- * the prince of peace to the non - apocryphal victory of the Macabees
- * over the Assyrians [or whomever]).
-
- I'm writing this before reading the rest of the message, although I
- can predict (with 95% accuracy) the rest from the title..
- I hope I'll be able to respond after the Fois Gras festival is over.
-
- I suppose the historical error was meant to be a trap, so in
- short my interpretation of Hanukka is the victory of mid-eastern
- spiritualism over helenic/western materialism (it were not the
- Assyrians but the Syrian/Greek part the post Alexander empire).
- The second incarnation of such a victory was the Khomeini revolution.
- But all that belongs to domains were the PCT still does not have
- (and will not have, in this rate of development) generative models.
- I will also not enter in this son-of-a-god business.
-
- So I want to wish you all PCTers, real or phoney, blind or deaf,
- armchair philosphers, experimentalists and rejection-record breakers,
- a happy new year. I don't know how many AHA's I had since I started
- reading CSG-L but I surely had a lot of HMMM's and I thank you for that.
-
- --Oded
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- Oded Maler, LGI-IMAG (Campus), B.P. 53x, 38041 Grenoble, France
- Phone: 76635846 Fax: 76446675 e-mail: maler@vercors.imag.fr
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