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Dec-26-06
 | | Domdaniel: <Eyal> You could be right about letters, although missives to God aren't exactly religious universals. Judaism and Hinduism probably feature strongly. But such letter/prayers tend to be stuck in a wall or ritually burned rather than entering the postal system. These 'Eyal' and 'Domdaniel' entities also seem to get a lot of email, for non-existent creatures. I once lived by the sea, overlooking a beach with a vast expanse of flat sand when the tide was out (actually the same Sandymount Strand that features in Joyce's Ulysses). I got up one morning to see that somebody had scrawled a giant message in letters about ten feet high. Or 3 metres, even. It read: GOD - GET IN TOUCH - URGENT
[followed by a phone number...].
I never rang it. Wish I had. |
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Dec-26-06
 | | OhioChessFan: <GOD - GET IN TOUCH - URGENT
[followed by a phone number...].
I never rang it. Wish I had.>
Think a lot of yourself, eh? |
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| Dec-26-06 | | JoeWms: <Dom: somebody had scrawled a giant message in letters about ten feet high: GOD - GET IN TOUCH - URGENT>
No footprints in the sand? Then it must have been an incoming message. |
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| Dec-26-06 | | Eyal: <such letter/prayers tend to be stuck in a wall> Oh, you don't have to tell me about THAT - I grew up in Jerusalem, where the famous Western Wall (or "Wailing Wall"? - I'm not sure how it's usually called in English-speaking countries) is. BTW, interesting game we're having with Team White vs. Team Black, wouldn't you say? I can see you're posting there quite a lot... |
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Dec-27-06
| | OhioChessFan: Man. Just reviewed my previous post. Too many interpretations available to be as funny as I thought it was. :( |
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| Dec-27-06 | | twinlark: I doubt if anyone took it astray. |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> - <Think a lot of yourself, eh?>
Yep, but not quite *that* much. The problem was he (or she) didn't leave a name. And I feel that maybe the intended recipient of the message would have been expected to know it already. I suppose I could have said "Is it yourself?" |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: Some matters continue to vex.
"Regarding perpetual checks:
Can you think of a thing
That will make the heart sing?"
No. But, if desperate, try, er, gender.
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> I'd have mentioned the wall, which was what I had in mind -- but I actually wasn't sure whether to call it Wailing or Western. So both are used? I also just heard a radio programme about a Catholic church where people leave written prayers like 'please help my daughter'. So such practices appear more common than I had thought. Another (unoriginal) limerick, the inspiration for my previous one: Said the venerable Dean of St Paul's
"Concerning these cracks in the walls,
Do you think it would do
If we filled them with glue?"
The Bishop of Shropshire said "No, not really." |
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| Dec-27-06 | | mack: It was on my way to St Paul's
That a lady grabbed me by the tail of the coat |
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Dec-27-06
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Dear God, it's me, Margaret!! |
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| Dec-27-06 | | Eyal: <The Bishop of Shropshire said "No, not really."> Are you sure it's not
<The Bishop of Lincoln said: "Balls!">? :-) |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> I see you learned the vulgar version. Okay, you're right, the original Bish was from Lincoln, not Shropshire. But I'm sure he said "No, not really" or "hmmmm" or "ahhhh" or summat like that. Balls in the C. of E.? Never, sir. btw, The Eye will fix its little retina on your forum from tomorrow, if that's the plan... I imagine things will be quiet for a few days but there could be a flurry of activity around the new year. Common Era or Xtian, that is. |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Hi there. I didn't organize myself to send you what I said I would, but I will as soon as that new year's resolution about inertia and laziness takes effect. Shouldn't take long now. After all, it's 352 days since I made it... |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal>, btw, aren't the German and French versions of Jabberwocky in Gödel, Escher, Bach? |
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| Dec-27-06 | | Eyal: <aren't the German and French versions of Jabberwocky in Gödel, Escher, Bach?> Yes - I think that's where I saw them for the first time (they appear as one of the "interludes" - "English French German Suite"); they are also in Martin Gardner's "Annotated Alice", which is a very nice edition. BTW, here's a link to 58 translations (including to Latin and Klingon) and 23 spoofs, if you're interested: http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabb... |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jessica> is Margaret the secret name of God? It might explain a few things... |
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Dec-27-06
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Thanks for that link. Um broilg a bhi ann. Bhi na tobhai sloithe
Ag grith is groimeann insan bheab...
is how an Irish version might go, and I'm working on Danish... but Klingon should be fun. Sino-Celtic, of course. |
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Dec-28-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> No need to explain about organizing yourself. Yeesh you already sent it to me once, Holmes. Still look forward to reading your stuff. After I get it I will send you a piece I published in a Canadian literary journal. The piece is actually on topic RE part of the current discussion in your forum-- it's called "Is God a Bookmaker?" Unless you're pulling my leg about "Margaret," I was troping on the title of a very popular book with prepubescent and teen girls called "Hello God, it's me, Margaret." By the by, isn't "CE" an abbreviation for "current era" rather than "common era"? Although who could dispute that our current era is indeed "common". HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
You're so erudite and sarcastic I'm never quite sure when you're punning. They say sarcasm is a "low" form of humor, but in the hands of the erudite I submit that it is not. Perhaps in these cases it should be termed "erucasm." Or maybe "eruchasm" Be careful of staring too long into the "eruchasm," or it may begin laughing back.... Heh
Cheers, and where the freaking heck is Daniel Pi? Having a life outside of chessgames.com? How dare he.
Jess |
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Dec-28-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> The erudite thing is a front. There are <huge> gaps in my knowledge -- I'd never even heard of those Margaret books. Maybe it's one of those Atlantic divides. I try to keep up with Canadian culture, and I do my best with the great nation surrounding you to the south and NW. But so much jest slips right on by. I suspect maybe Yurp isn't much of a market for Hello God books for teens. Yet. Last I heard from DanielPi he was very busy making movies, though he still had time for a big debate on the Napoleon page. With bufon vanquished and you temporarily absent, what else did he have to live for? |
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Dec-28-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: No, no, <Dom>
As <Adorno and Horkheimer> pointed out in 1946, it would be better to <dismantle> North American culture than <keep up with it>. The Margaret books are <Kitsch religiosity>. You may have noticed we have a lot of that over here. But I don't want to make any 12 year old girls cry. Necessarily. By the way, I noticed your posts are liable to come in at any hour of the day or night. Is that because you guys use a 24 hour clock in <Yurp>? Do you all stay awake for 24 and sleep the next 24 like those French scientists who lived underground with no clocks for a few months? Pretty funny experiment, I'm sure you heard of it. Anyways, I propose to my fellow colonists here that we quietly disband and all move to <Niels'> house in Amsterdam. I believe he's quite wealthy, should be room for us all. Cheers, <how can I see one of Daniel's films?> Jess |
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| Dec-28-06 | | achieve: Niels = NOT wealthy (not starving either;-) VISA card here I come.. <Yurp> Hmmm.. Huh? Aaah.. Europa (phew) |
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| Dec-29-06 | | Zebra: <I try to keep up with Canadian culture> Well, I am a great fan of Leonard Cohen. And I like Loreena M(a)cKennitt (forgotten the spelling). |
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Dec-29-06
| | Domdaniel: Great Canadians: Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Neil Young, Dana Wyse, William Gibson [honorary Vancouverian], KD Lang, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Marshall McLuhan, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Mike Hoolboom, Michael Snow, and LOTS more ... "Canada as a nation-state is a creature of panic" (Michael Dorland) This makes it a sort of paradigm of near-future-shock, as demonstrated by many of the artists, writers, theorists and filmmakers in my list. |
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Dec-29-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - <As <Adorno and Horkheimer> pointed out in 1946, it would be better to <dismantle> North American culture than <keep up with it>.> I agree. But as <I> pointed out around 1996, you don't dismantle a structure by scraping off the paint. 'Keep up' was a careless phrase, though, in this Jonesian universe. |
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