V Group Read - tentative schedule
Monte Davis
montedavis at verizon.net
Sat Jun 5 12:12:49 CDT 2010
Joseph Tracy sez:
> ...suppose we reverse the pattern by attaching a
> string or narrative line to the middle finger with a
> yo-yo at the other end, and assume instead
> that what goes down must come up, but
> on a spinning planet, never in the same place.
> Are V and GR connected in a big sine wave?
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Wikipedia sez: "This is very often attributed to Mark Twain, but the
earliest published source yet located is by [wait for it] Joseph Anthony
Wittreich in_Feminist Milton_ (1987)...
And of course Engels wrote Marx in 1851 that "it really seems as though old
Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the
grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be
re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten
farce..."
Which Marx then attributed to Hegel himself... this how bons mots as well as
misattributions are bred, my friends
As B4,
Monte (the 18th Boomer)
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