[lit-ideas] Re: Guardian Unlimited: Denmark's new values
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:31:37 -0800
I always suspect that you and I had different ways of obtaining information,
Andreas. While you were outside looking at the moon, I was finishing Robin
Wright's In the Name of God, The Khomeini Decade and beginning Mohammad
Mohaddessin's Islamic Fundamentalism, The New Global Threat.
I read recently (I believe it was from Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Islam in
Modern History) that all the translations into Arabic during the time from
Mohammad until now, don't equal the translations completed in just one year
in Spain. Not much moon watching by those Spaniards . . . or maybe just too
much by those Arabs.
Lawrence
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> The liberal idea that we can all be just one big happy multicultural hymn
to joy was never
> achievable.
Never achievable? Oh, Lawrence. Just go to UC Berkeley or UC Santa Cruz. Or
even come to
Silicon Valley. One big multicultural hymn to joy. You'd totally hate it.
You're such a poo-head. Here, I've got something for you. Go outside at 8:21
tonight. Look
straight east. See that big thing in the sky? Yeah, that moon thing. Look at
the middle, on
the right side. See those two big dark spots? The Sea of Serenity. The Sea
of Tranquility.
Aren't you totally disgusted?
Wait, I got one that you'll like. Okay, back outside at 11:26 tonight. Look
west. See that
red star (no, not some commie trick). That's Mars. God of War. You're
grinning, now, aren't
you? Get out the 9" telescope. The one that looks like a howitzer. See those
two moons
around Mars? They have names. Phoebus and Deimos. That's Mexican for Fear
and Trembling. Now
you can look up at the sky and feel your kind of joy.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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