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- From: sgp@Ingres.COM (the happy existentialist)
- Subject: Re: URANUS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.012329.11123@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: sgp@Ingres.COM (the happy existentialist)
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- References: <axolotl.727017611@syzygy> <C1CIAK.ADx@umassd.edu> <hayesstw.211.727938562@risc1.unisa.ac.za>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:23:29 GMT
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- In article <hayesstw.211.727938562@risc1.unisa.ac.za> hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) writes:
- >In article <C1CIAK.ADx@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman) writes:
- >
- >> "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- >>you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- >>tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- >> AYN RAND
- >Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
- >
- >That's gross, man.
- >
- >I always thought one of the main characteristics of adventure was
- >uncertainty.
- >
- >Steve Hayes, Department of Missiology & Editorial Department
- >Univ. of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
- >Internet: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za
- > steve.hayes@f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
-
- i don't know about ayn's childhood, but one of more frustrating
- aspects of mine was the confusion engendered by the fact that i
- was most certainly not dealing with a rational universe. sounds
- like ayn's bougeois background gurgling up to the surface.
-
- sgp
-