A Soul In Ev'ry Stone
Paul Mackin
mackin at allware.com
Sat Apr 5 06:28:45 CST 1997
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From: Mike Weaver[SMTP:pic at gn.apc.org]
The last line leads us back out into the world we
the readers inhabit and may be a challenge to each of us to get up off our
endless bums and join the resistance, to recognise our equivalent of
Roger's dilemma as posed on p713 -
"...which is worse: living on as Their pet or death? ... Letting it sit
there for a while is no compromise, but a decision to live, on Their terms.
. . ."
>>>>>>Not to put too fine a point on it, but before rushing off in all directions waving the Sayings of Chairman Tom around in the air, I suggest we spend a few moments of silent thought considering the possibility that Roger may be
laboring under a major false dichotomy.
Is not the REAL "choice" that of living as Their pet A-AND Death?
Pessimistically,
P.
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