Subj : Re: Back again
To   : Frank Masingill
From : John Wilson
Date : Thu Jul 12 2001 01:51 pm

-=> Frank Masingill wrote to John Wilson <=-

 >  What d'you think, Frank, is progress possible?

 FM>     If you're drawing a line from point A to point B,
 FM> certainly.  If you have drawn three inches of it in the
 FM> direction of B then you've made progress, no?

 FM>     But, as for Progress with a big P, no way in the universe to
 FM> know since since history has no eidos and the end, if it has one,
 FM> is a mystery.

    So what the hell am I worrying about ? :-)

    'sides, I've moved an inch toward B....

    At some point (grin) the first indoor bathtub
 FM> was placed in the White House and it probably wasn't
 FM> Millard Fillmore.  But you can bet that Mr. and Mrs. Bush
 FM> have one - maybe several.

 :-)

 I do hereby declaim that civilization is *directly* proportional
 to the amount of indoor plumbing extant!

 What better criteria?





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