a mystery solved

Tim Ware timware at crl.com
Sat Feb 3 00:43:27 CST 1996


I wouldn't get too worked up about meanings in "Nothing disappears 
without a trace". I'm pretty sure (as perhaps all the rest of you are) 
that Mr. Caesar's fantastic discovery was apocryphal. If the Grandma 
Moses bit doesn't convince, a bit of checking reveals no such volume 
entitled "The Third Book of Words to Live By."

It was pretty cute, but I think the story about that film maker a few 
months back was better hoax.

Still curious.

TW



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On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Cal McInvale wrote:

> >Interestingly, though, there's a final para-
> >graph after the first line about nature knowing transformation (mostly blather)
> >and then a final sentence after the bit about the continuity of our spiritual
> >existence after death. The final sentence reads thus: "Nothing disappears with-
> >out a trace."
> 
> Weird. A couple of recent episodes of X-Files centered on this quote,
> "Nothing disappears without a trace." Connection?
> 
> 
> cal
> mexico at worlds.net
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> So that when it turns the switches,
> then I am not the same.
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> 
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