Re: TRANS: a love poem
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 16, 1999, 5:11 |
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, andrew wrote:
> "Bismarck was very fond of enlarging on his favourite theory of the male
> and female European nations. The Germans themselves, the three
> Scandinavian peoples, the Dutch, the English proper, the Scotch, the
> Hungarians and the Turks, he declared to be essentially male races. The
--snip--
> quarrel. - Vanished Pomps of Yesterday by Lord Frederic Hamilton, first
> published 1919.
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> Well it's a longer quote than I originally expected, but there you go...>
Damn. *laughs* Takes a lot of skill to be so incredibly sexist *and*
racist in the same breath! Ah, for the good old days!
--Patrick