I am uncommonly busy at the moment and this is distracting me. I'll see if I can come up with something later. In meantime, I invite you also to answer my questions with something more than pie in the sky. I really have to finish what I'm doing. > [Original Message] > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 12/29/2005 3:33:28 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: Still needing a definition > > Irene wrote: > > > There are a precious few good human parents out there. > > This follows, I suppose, from your tiresome indictment of humanity in > general?? There are few (if any) decent human beings; therefore, being > in various ways defective, they must have been made so by their parents. > Is that it? Or have you actually done some empirical investigation, as > might a sociologist? Maybe this is somehow known to you a priori. I'm > not sure what set you off on your latest series of misanthropic rants, > but I genuinely hope you feel better soon. > > Robert Paul > Reed College > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html