Date:         Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:03:13 EST
From: The Bonfire of Ideas <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      FILLER: Writers POLL: A Ravening Wolf?

[a simple three questions...and a short quote...have fun!]

If you were a prophet, what would your message be?

And who would you be giving it to?

And on whose behalf would you be speaking?

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been
playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do
it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow
up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, 'Keep
tomorrow dark,' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire,
I have no doubt) 'Cheat the Prophet.' The players listen very
carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say
about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait
until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go
and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes,
however, it is great fun." G.K. Chesterton

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