Yes - only I thought that when a hundred resolute poetryetcerers blazoned
Insouciant across the cerulean sky of the NYT - at your command - then Will
would become Realization, and the eschaton would be, like, immanentized.
Sigh...
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Time(s) to Take Action
> What you see are only the most "popular" words. That's why you need to
> enter
> "insouciant"
> everyday. Then, it might show up among all those others.
>
> Hal
>
> "Never underestimate the power of stupid
> people in large groups."
> --George Carlin
>
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Well, Hal, I did what I was tol', but nary an insouciant do I see.
>> My real reaction is: lost. But I react like that to 'most everything.
>> _______________________________________
>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>
>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:38 PM
>> Subject: Time(s) to Take Action
>>
>>
>>
>> The NYT is featuring a page where readers can type in a word about their
>>> feelings about today's economy. I like as many of us as possible to go
>>> to
>>> that
>>> page and enter the word "insouciant." If enough of us do that, the word
>>> will
>>>
>>> join others (e.g. hopeful, sad, terrified) and scroll across the screen.
>>>
>>> So, go now (yes, right now!) to this page--
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/30/business/economy/2009-economy-words.html
>>>
>>> and key in the word "insouciant." Let's not let the Gloomy Guses have
>>> their
>>> way on this one.
>>>
>>> --Hal
>>>
>>> "Never underestimate the power of stupid
>>> people in large groups."
>>> --George Carlin
>>>
>>>
>>> Halvard Johnson
>>> ================
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>>> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
>>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>>>
>>
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