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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Joshua Allen wrote:
> > > different Torquemada. yours was real, this was in a comic
>
> Are we talking about the Torquemada who organized the
> torture and burning at stake of anyone who strayed in the
> slightest bit from the liturgical dogma of the Catholic
> specifications? Especially those people who claimed to
> follow the dogma but had previous religions that might
> taint their adherence to the new specs?
I was, yes, but only in the mood of irony, irony, y'all get it now?
(seizing a printout of XML Schemas and soundly beating everyone in sight
with it).
Technically, the Spanish Inquisition never burned anybody;
the secular Spanish government did that at the Inquisition's
recommendation. No moral difference, of course.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
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