[lit-ideas] Re: Where There's a Will There's a Way (Pun Intended)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:11:31 -0700
On Oct 5, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
Oh dear, now I fear that the End Time preachers might be right. David
Ritchie has written a political post. And it has nothing to do with
those he loves most or certainly lots -- the Scots -- nothing to do
with bizarre cars, nothing to do with dance or fancy swords or
Academic Boards. nothing touching on the cavilling of his travelling
troupe, no call to beat cannons into pacifist canons, nothing whatever
to do with odd names and the shames they ironically reflect.
Historians have, or in my view should have, strong reservations about
saying anything even authoritative-seeming about the present. We see
patterns in past circumstances but, as your investment advisor will
tell you, patterns are an unreliable guide to the particulars of the
present. On general trends, we're trusthworthy; on whether the
Republicans will win the House this time around, we're not.
But since you have clearly exhibited the secret sign, known only to the
Knights Templar and Arnold Schwarzenegger (appearing in this sequence
courtesy of photography by Robert Mapplethorpe--did you know he modeled
for Mapplethorpe?), I can reveal that the End Time will not come much
before Tuesday.
As to which Tuesday...well if I revealed that, I'd have to kill you.
With a sword.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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