Re: Jumping in

Wes Temby (tembywd@student.adams.edu)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:47:12 -0600 

I love Vonnegut. Ever read "Harrison Bergeron?" Good story. Sorry, what was
I just talking about? The cannons going off made me lose track. ;)

-WD

--On Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 11:07 AM -0600 Robbie Taggart
<imwithstupid@juno.com> wrote:

> "Fightin' don't help, Jimmy. Lord knows nobody ever brought any more
> sunshine into the world by bloodyin' somebody's nose, or by having his
> own nose bloodied."
> "I know- but he said my I.Q. was 59, Ma!  And he said Pop was a 53!"
> "Now now, that's just child's talk. Don't you pay it no mind, Jimmy." 
> "But it's true. Ma, it's true. I went down to the police station and
> looked it up! Fifty-nine, Ma! and poor Pop with a 53. And you with a 47,
> Ma. A 47." 
> "Jimmy, look at your mother... Jimmy, I.Q. isn't everything. Some of the
> unhappiest people in this world are the smartest ones. Jimmy, boy, son-
> I.Q. won't get you happiness, and Saint Peter don't give I.Q. tests
> before he lets you in those Pearly Gates. The wickedest people that ever
> lived was the smartest." 
> "You mean- a plain fellow like me, just another guy, folks like us, Ma,
> you mean we're as good as, as, as, well, Doctor Garson, the Works
> Manager?"
> "Doctor Garson, with his 169 I.Q.? Doctor Garson, with his Ph.D., D.Sc.,
> and his Ph. and D. I-don't-know-what-else? Him?"
> "Yeah, Ma. Him."
> "Him? Doctor Garson? Jimmy, son, boy- have you seen the bags under his
> eyes? Have you seen the lines in his face? He's carryin' the world around
> on his shoulders, Jimmy. That's what a high I.Q. got him, Doctor Garson.
> Do you know how old he is?"
> "An awful old man, Ma."
> "He's ten years younger than your Pa, Jimmy. That's what brains got him."
> Kurt Vonnegut wrote it, maybe it's utterly irrelevant, maybe not.
> Intelligence makes you old and tired. Must be horrible being smart, huh? 
>   -robbie
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:33:01 -0600 Wes Temby <tembywd@student.adams.edu>
> writes:
>> Intelligence alienates. That's almost a given. Think about it, if 
>> you're
>> more intelligent than the average person, how can you be comsidered 
>> able to
>> fit in with them just as well as one of them? I don't mean to look 
>> down my
>> nose or anything, the math just speaks for itself really. (I'm not 
>> really a
>> math wizard either)
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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