Your epigram

still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made traveler at afn.org
Tue May 13 21:27:01 CDT 1997


I ended a message with this signature:

>  M a x i m u s  D a v i d  C l a r k e | All journeys have secret
>           http://www.afn.org/~traveler | destinations of which the
>                  "Surrealist-At-Large" | traveler is unaware.
>                       traveler at afn.org | --Martin Buber

To which Thomas Vieth responded:

> Your epigram somehow reminds me of a sentence in "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt 
> Vonnegut: "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

I like it, and am reminded of a Hasidic proverb:

"Man plans, God laughs."

Max

M a x i m u s  D a v i d  C l a r k e | What is behind the universe
         http://www.afn.org/~traveler | is more like a mind than it is
                "Surrealist-At-Large" | like anything else we know.
                     traveler at afn.org | --C.S. Lewis







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