Did we know this? I just learned

[Henry Musikar]

Us, and Them: 
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2846427/us_and_them_pink_floyd_amazing_video/

We and They: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_wethey.htm 

Henry Mu
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:27 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Did we know this? I just learned

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called We and They (in Debits and Credits,
1919-23):

in the first verse:
"All the people like us are We,
and every one else is They."

Builds to this more nuanced We & They (ala GR):

All good people agree,
  And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
  And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
  Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
  As only a sort of They!