Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
From: Otto Sell (o.sell@telda.net)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 02:12:28 GMT
Will,
the Nostradamus-quote is wrong, known as the "Village Idiot Hoax"
http://www.nostradamus-repository.org/
Otto
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
> > >
> > > Come the millennium, month 12,
> > > In the home of greatest power,
> > > The village idiot will come forth
> > > To be acclaimed the leader.
> >
>
> My wife is the deputy political editor of the Hartford Courant and
> has followed the polls very closely during the election period. I
> told her this summer that we would elect Bush because America is
> anti-intellectual and relates more directly to him as our village
> idiot than it could to Gore as Clinton's fool. She thought the polls
> indicated Gore would win. I think Salinger may have been helping me
> understand America's love affair with vulgarity and stupidity. As
> always, he's one of the few writers whose ideas never fail me...Will
> --
> Will Hochman
> Assistant Professor of English & Composition Co-Coordinator
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
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