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Posted by George Hester on 10/09/05 16:40
"Hammerer" <hammerer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:t5a2f.33504$K91.32777@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
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> > "Hammerer" <hammerer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:4349270d$0$49017$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
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> > > I thought you were American, George?
> > >
> >
> > I am
> >
> I know, George. I know.
> >
> > but I recognize a superior culture when I see one.
> >
> There *are* no superior cultures, George.
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> > Without the French we'd still be reading things like
> > Tom Clancy instead of James Joyce.
> >
> I think I'd have to disagree with you there, George.
> >
> > Neither French I know but if it wasn't for the French Joyce would never
> > have existed. Same could be said for Melville; Pynchon; Gaddis; Bester.
> >
> There too. While I'm a big fan of their revolution, I fear you may be
> overstating their impact on Global culture, and on WinMX. Not that you
don't
> have a perfect right to do so, of course.
>
>
Well I'm not really sure about the benefits of their Revolution. Napolean
and therefore Egyptology Voltaire Rousseau well maybe you have a point. But
then Literature was not their only contribution. Painting Mathematics
Philosophy can't do much better than the French.
--
George Hester
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