From Quinn@webmail.hope.edu Fri Sep 6 07:55:53 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.08) with SMTP id g86Etp97074300 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:55:51 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Sep 06 07:55:50 2002 -0700 Received: from brass.metals.hope.edu (brass.metals.hope.edu [198.110.98.36]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with SMTP id g86EtoJX026078 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:55:50 -0700 Received: from hope.edu ([198.110.98.17]) by brass.metals.hope.edu (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002090610521428958 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:52:14 -0400 Received: from [198.110.99.18] (Quinn@webmail.hope.edu) by hope.edu; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:55:49 -0400 X-WM-Posted-At: hope.edu; Fri, 6 Sep 02 10:55:49 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3D78B622.F81BE82F@temple.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:56:01 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: John Quinn Subject: Re: TAN: Electronic Games Banned in Greece Am I the only one disappointed by the rationale for the ban? When the news first hit the list, I was thinking how appropriate it was that Greece would be the first country to try to lead the world away from the barbarous inanity of computer games into something more worthy of civilization ... jtq -- and don't get me started on "personal watercraft", either Prof. John T. Quinn quinn@hope.edu Dept. of Modern & (616) 395-7562 Classical Languages Hope College Holland, MI 49423 "The Quinns are of course exotics -- their language and their selves are fantastic and extreme. But the orotundity of their language is about the energy and imagination required to divert from the actual poverty." -- Chris Hannan, author's note to *Elizabeth Gordon Quinn* (1985) .