TRTR(1) Eye Goddesses Wearing Dipthongs

[Paul Mackin]

Hi Michael

Yeah, I felt talkative for some reason this afternoon.  The thermometer 
shot up to 85 and I took it as a sign.

Well, I was fully sentient when The Recognitions was published but 
didn't read it until years later.

I knew a lot of intellectual people back in the 50s and into the 60s.  
After that I just sort of lost contact but still read a lot.  I think 
your observations about the 70s (you came of age in) would fit with 
those of a lot of people.  Intellectual talk grew less important.  Low 
culture and pop music and let's face it casual sex took up a lot of the 
slack.  Among all levels of society.  Of course I was well into middle 
age by then, and at a certain point you pay less attention.

P



On 4/11/2011 7:53 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> anyroad, welcome back, Mr Mackin!  it's been awhile...
>
> yes, probably the church hierarchy got together and thrashed out some
> issues and made the theology dovetail with their financial and
> administrative priorities.
>
> and just like in politics, if you are at enough of a distance to apply
> common sense it seems like they are ignoring the most important
> thing(s) to focus on minutiae
>
> if you want to balance the budget, stop starting wars all over the place, eg...
> and for gosh sakes somebody legalize marijuana...
>
> or, if you want to spread the gospel through all the nations, manifest
> God's goodness and do good works...if your religion is any good, it
> should make you able to get along with others, persuade and find
> common ground, rather than anathematizing them...
>
> stuff that seems obvious enough
>
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> I wasn't born until the year TR was published, so like Mark I don't
> remember the social discourse of those times.
> I started keeping track in the 70s, and I seem to recall that in the
> bars of the college town the music most often precluded much
> conversation.  In the classes, there was some good discussion, of
> course.
> Nowadays, quien sabe?  I don't get around all that much...
>
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>