Re: [DISC] Is Language Creation Art?
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 17, 2002, 5:55 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> Yep - and over in Russia a professional chemist called Alexander Borodin
> didn't make too bad a job of his favorite hobby either ;)
Same with the American insurance adjuster Charles Ives.
> I forget the name of that painting Picasso did depicting the
> suffering of the people of Gerona after Franco had the luftwaffe bomb the
> town [...]
_Guernica_, which is the name of the town.
> they are little better than the Morlochs [spelling?] of Wells'
"Morlocks". But it's an interesting association with Moloch (the
pagan god for whom firstborns were put to death in Philistia); I
wonder if Wells had it in mind?
> Long may it do so!
Hear, hear!
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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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