Subject: Re: l'eternel retour
From: Scout Thompson (one38@one38.org)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 18:34:18 GMT
"We?"
There was an interesting quote again, as much as I
hate to be the interesting quote dispenser, that said
that "When we begin to use imagination instead of
experience as a guide, we get a bit of our childhood
back."
But now I'm hitting the tab key to start a sentence!
What's happening? :)
We can pretend that if in the past its happened it will
happen again- "History repeats itself," a quote by a
harvard going section man but common sense as it were-
but to assume that if it hasn't happened, it won't, is
horrendous. The situationists used to say there would
be no more technology that could give back community the
way the industrial revolution took it away- and yet, here
we are, on the internet. Who could have guessed? History
may repeat itself, but history also oftentimes doesn't
repeat itself.
Obligatory Salinger Reference: When I was at work last
night, I was covering donuts with sugar, and for ten
seconds I was 10 years old making snowballs. The phenomena
was less than concerned with precedent.
Tata,
-s.
Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> '... Must everything have a precedent? What a horrendous
> future we'd have for ourselves! ...'
>
> That's the way it goes, Scout. From switching on
> the shebang at first light to switching off the whatsit
> at sundown, we operate on the assumption that if it
> happened before it'll probably work that way again.
>
> Scottie B.
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