Re: LOTR credit line

In a message dated 2003:12:31 03:37:23 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>>I never have understand that one. I mean, since
>>when has white not been a colour?
>
>Actually, white has *never* been a colour ;)) . It's a *value*
>(corresponding to the maximum of lightness) ;))) . But note that black
>is also a value (corresponding to the maximum of darkness) :))) , so the
>expression "People of Colour", especially applied to "black" people, is
>still a strange one :)) .
    I think that is also why my Uncle Kai is gigglafittin' ---  he sometimes
is a graphic designer and is a notorious colour chart/sample collector/pack
rat...
    when not fightin as a mercenary in some gods-forsaken war like in Bosnia
    or "X-treme adventurin'" in harsh climes like Siberia, Kurdistan, Timor,
Kanaky or Peru (sans passport or government permissions but waaay plenty
guns-'n'-grenades in crates)
    or protecting Yukon land/goldmine claims and US properties for certain
Japanese "bosses"
    or on a gamblin'-&-womanizin' safari with other veteran British
Commonwealth "gone-a-soldiering type scum" (funny thing tho': Kai "the Jungle Fox"
Chang fought _against_ these very SAS Commando types in the Malaysian War for
Independence in 1948 when he was only 12 years old! and then just less than 5 yrs.
later he was fighting against Surkano in Indonesia...)

    His soldier/partisan/scholar-heroes: Lawrence of Arabia, Richard Burton,
William S. Jones, Paul Eluard and Blaise Cendrars. (I recently turned him onto
Iannis Xenakis...who beats even Burton IMHO in the ferocity, tenacity &
untamed creativity dept.s any day...)



In a message dated 2003:12:31 05:16:15 PM, elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:

>- and
>Daine have to many other physical characteristics
>to comment on that make mere skin colour
>unimportant.
    Like the fact AFIIRC that they used to wear other's skins...& smelled
sum-thin' jus' freekin' OFFAL!


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