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From: Jackie Litherland <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: asteroid hit earth
> > On the cosmic scale of things we're bacteria in a puddle somewhere in
the
> > shadow of a litter-bin in an abandoned bus-station in the middle of
nowhere.
> >
> > And the pinnacle of creation too, I mean, one must have perspective.
Jackie
> In our puddle we get very excited about poetry.
Absolutely. The last line of my words you quote are just as important as the
rest. And I wouldn't swap for any other puddle, certainly not that one over
there, by the ticket-office, have you ever talked to them? Pompous lot of
bootstrappers. you'd think they were all wearing medals on their chests,
they way they huff.
david
>
> Dear David,
>
> On the cosmic scale of things they're not doing anything except imploding,
> exploding, and taking an awful long time about it. In our puddle we get
very
> excited about poetry. We're very very tiny but in comparison our lives are
> pretty varied. Stars may be bigger than us, but they've yet to compose a
> sonnet. Anyway, aren't we sons and daughters of stars, built from their
> fragments?
>
> Jackie
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