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[Joe Varo]

On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Paul Mackin wrote:
 
> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt wrote:
> 
> > who EXACTLY are They? (emphasis added) 
> 
> Have an awful feeling I'm missing the context, but here's an 
> an off-the-top-of-the-header. 
> 
> "They" are whatever reminds "Us" we are about to die.  
> 
> Kind of existential.

All of this talk about who "They" are reminds me of this little plaque my 
mother-in-law used to have hanging in her dining room.  It was one of 
those quaint, folksy, almost hillbilly sort of artsy-craftsy sort of 
things and the saying on it went something like this:

          So they say.
          What say they?
          Let them say,
          For who be they?

And, no, my mother-in-law is not a Pynchon fan and probably doesn't even 
know who he is.

Joe