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Re: ::scr Re: doesn't have the morlocks
Dan Argent <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> "Tom Forwood" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Yes you can do all these things. If you think that you
>> cannot, then you
>> >> can't.
>> >>
>> >> Once again, you have limited yourself. I don't know if
>> someone told
>> >> you this was true, or you deduced it for yourself.
>> >> By all means be good at what you do, but don't think that you are
>> >> limited in your choice of what to be good at.
>> >
>> > Dou you believe that anyone can be fundamentally better at
>> any thing than
>> > anyone else so that if both people put their all into a
>> particular area
>> > there will never be one who comes out on top?
>>
>> I choose as my field of endeavour 'fetching things down from high
>> shelves without ones feet leaving the ground'. The shelves to be
>> placed at varying heights.
>
> So you can stand if you are tall.
> You can jump if you are a small springy gymnast.
Without your feet leaving the ground?
> You can build a machine to do it for you.
> You can blackmail people to do it for you..............
Oh fucking hell. I further define the field of endeavour to disbar the
use of any outside apparatus, whether sentient or otherwise. I further
state that the things on the high shelves must not be used in any way
to aid the retrieval of further items. And that the high shelves
themselves shall not be dismantled, or used for anything but acting as
shelves.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?