Re: Machines that don't think...

The Woodpecker (revkev@OLS.NET)
Tue, 20 May 1997 01:06:28 -0400

A.E. Manier Sr. wrote:
>
> How unkinder than a serpent's tooth!
>
> To win by those most despised traits, narcissism, cleverness and oral
> aggression.
>
> I should have stayed home and watched the Odyssey!
>
> I can't resist asking, "where's the inconsistency among Melville's
> premisses about
> Ahab and the whale?"
>
> Madness and "greatness" arrive for many different and similar reasons. I
> feel as if madness were being thrust upon me.
>
> For the life of me, I don't see that the premiss "Ahab was mad" goes a
> nanometer toward supporting Paul Toth's point.
>
> I feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag and I want to go home. Which reminds
> me, irony and satire aren't incoherent either. Not that I want to put
> words in Paul's mouth.
>
> I don't like cake. Just Scotch and Alsatian beer. At different times of
> the day.
>
> ezwell now this here old north carolina redneck ain't no phd be he knows when something
has gotten tiresome, silly and just plain stupid. This list is supposed to be about the
works of walker percy not the inflating of egos and bashing of anyone that dare not
agree. If you children must bicker please go to the other room and don't come out
untill your done.

As for new threads, how about Lancelot, speaking of hurting heads and madness

from down on the farm

kevin