What can I say, Gerald, except that you said it!
Frank
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From: "Gerald Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:27 AM
Subject: snap
> Up early this morning before I get my daughter
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> up for school -- reading Emerson's "Hamatreya":
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> "Ah! the hot owner sees not death, who adds
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> Him to his land, a lump of mould the more." and
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> wondering -- almost aloud-- if this poem, a variation
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> of "Maitreya," from the sacred Hindu text Vishnu
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> Purana, How Long It Will take the Alyssa A. Lappens
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> of Campus Watch To Reach Back Into Our History,
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> Asking ( no doubt pointedly): "Is this the kind of poetry
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> that will be of any interest even a year from now, much
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> less for the ages?" And-- as I wake my daughter
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> for school I say -- almost aloud -- Let Emerson
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> "and his type draw together leftist sharks and
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> deliberately encourage misunderstanding."
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> --Gerald Schwartz
> West Irondequoit, New York 14617,
> United States (of misunderstanding)
> 6:55 am
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