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                                             July 13, 2007


   "He has a brush; I have no sword, and so it
   seems his prisoning is less.  Yet I may call
   my jailer by a name, and see a face, and
   know the hands which hold the iron key."

              -- "To Here and the Easel" by
                  Theodore Sturgeon


                                     SPOILERS
   There is an R.A. Lafferty story
   about a priest exploring an
   alien society, a culture that
   appears at first to be totally
   without vice. But then he
   notices a plethora of perfume
   shops everywhere...  he
   realizes that they're wallowing
   in a kind of sensuality, it's
   just a sensuality of smells.
   He concludes that "only the
   name of the Snake has changed".



                                                          RAND

                      In the Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged",
                      people continually make speeches that
                      they understand the listener isn't really
                      ready for -- they explain that they're
                      providing words for a time when the words
                      might be needed:

                          Providing a name for a later time
                          when you might become aware of
                          something that needs to be named...


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