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please guys - knock it off
Nigel W.O Hutchison
Chief Scientist, W3C AC Representative
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:16 PM
> To: wperry@fiduciary.com
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] lots of WS reading material
>
>
> W. E. Perry scripsit:
>
> > Because we cannot serve two masters,
>
> Ah, but I spend my life explaining God to mammon and mammon to God.
> Likewise with liberals and conservatives, salesfolks and
> geeks, parents
> and children, chickens and eggs, and even Taoists and non-Taoists.
>
> > and only one of these premises can be the single true foundation.
>
> When building a house, a single foundation is a Good Thing. The world
> is round, though, and the universe is a hypersurface whose
> circumference
> is everywhere and its center nowhere.
>
> > We cannot
> > grant primacy to both light and darkness because one must have the
> > superior position to correct the other.
>
> If two walk together, and one should fall, the other may lift him up.
> Or consider Escher's "Drawing Hands":
> http://www.peter-renner.com/papers/thesis/Escher_hands.jpg
> Or even more simply: U+262F.
>
> "Two are one, life and death, lying/Like lovers together in _kemmer_/
> Like hands joined together/the end and the Way."
>
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com
> I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
>
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