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Hi Platt,
It doesn't really surprise me that somebody with knowledge of absolute truths
also has life/death mystery all mapped out. What it must be like to be as
smart as you!!!! So you think(I'm sorry absolutely know) the loss of life is
absolute?
Erin
>Neither Pirsig nor science nor lawyers can erase absolutely true
>statements about the Holocaust, the loss of lives in the attack on the
>Trade Center, the murder of Daniel Pearl and a million and one other
>absolute realities of everyday life and living. Your statement brings up
>the frightening prospect of renewing the Communist practice of
>"erasing" certain persons from photographs due to their suddenly
>revealed treason and of other "politically correct" rewrites of history.
>
>No, I'm afraid your "written in pencil" defense against my contention
>that many truths are absolute won't convince a jury, including when
>Pirsig says "always" he means "always." I would compare your
>defense to the "forked-tongue" suspicions of American Indians, and
>wind up my summary to them by quoting the following from the
>"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam":
>
>"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
>Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
>Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
>Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
>Platt
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