Re: the fourth text ever in Asiteya (including the t-shirt phrase)
From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
Date: | Monday, November 15, 1999, 9:02 |
andrew wrote:
>
> Am 11/11 23:11 J. Barefoot yscrifef:
>
> > Probably part of a ritual, though I don't know the details. Actually, it
> > came to me as we were saying the pledge of allegience at assembly today, at
> > eleven o'clock. We never do that. Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh
> > hour... Go figure.
> >
> At exactly the right time to remember Armistice Day, the ending of WWI,
> not widely commemorated now.
>
Except in France. It is still a free day for us, and is widely
commemorated by the government and the army.
> - andrew.
> --
> Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
>
> "Death is an evil; the gods have so judged it;
> had it been good, they would die."
> - Sappho of Lesbos.
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