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Re: [percy-l] Believers...

From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:08:50 -0700

Just for curiousity's sake, what are you using the passage for?

--Rhonda

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

e.e. cummings

From: <Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com>
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Subject: Re: [percy-l] Believers...
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:55:08 -0800

Found it referred to in an essay by Kent Gramm. From The Second Coming. Of course it is much longer than this. Thank you.

Excerpts:

There are only two classes of people, the believers and the unbelievers. The only difficulty is deciding which is the more feckless.

As unacceptable as believers are, unbelievers are even worse.

The present day unbeliever is crazy because he finds himself born into a world of endless wonders, having no notion how he got here, a world in which he eats, sleeps works, grows old, gets sick, and dies, and Not once in his entire life does it cross his mind to say to himself that his situation is preposterous

The more intelligent he is, the crazier he is He is as insane as a French intellectual.

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"To people! To unbelievers and to so-called believers." ...

Fr. Smith is talking to Tom More about how words have been deprived of their meaning.

The Thanatos Syndrome, Section II, part 6 (or chapter 6)

R. Schaefer

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[percy-l] Believers..., Robert_Pauley, 12/20/2006
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