To take (I think) an Neil Young line from an early album, "Don't trust the past, it wasn't built to last," so to be with 'is' seems right. A comparing mind oft be the killing mind.
Stephen V
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--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 25 questions: question # 1...
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Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 7:39 AM
Or a Can or a Cant....
Dou([utting my thinking cap on....)
On 12-Mar-10, at 7:21 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> There isn't a should or a shouldn't there is only an is and an isn't.
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 12 Mar 2010, at 14:08, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Taking a page from David Hilbert's well-known list of 23 "Paris Problems" (1900), and, likewise,
>> hoping to see solutions in this new century, I've formulated a list of questions, which of course
>> there is not the slightest connection between Hilbert's list of problems and this line of questioning.
>>
>> Not to mention the fact that many of my questions may contain the answers simply in the asking.
>>
>> Question # 1:
>>
>> Should any current poet be judged against only the very best works of the past?
>>
>> G. E. Schwartz
>
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