[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

Finished CR.

I made a go or two at finishing it, but had to wait awhile to do it.

If you love this and Sweet Thursday, you are as romantic a person as I am.
If the topic was classical music, I'd share what I simply cannot play
anymore because I just choke up and can't go on.  CR will have to go in
that category.  I don't think I can read it anymore.  Maybe when I Iose my
mind and forget it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

bill w

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:27 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:09 PM
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> From Steinbeck's Cannery Row:
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> "It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc.  "The things we admire in
> men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling,
> are the concomitants of failure in our system  And those traits we detest,
> sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
> the traits of success.  And while men admire the quality of the first they
> love the produce of the second."
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> bill w  (to  Spike - see, I don't remember this at all)
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> Eh, Doc was Steinbeck’s real world friend: Ed Ricketts is a real guy.  He
> was the hardest core of hard core leftists, really a communist, which is
> easy to be if one lived on Cannery Row in those days: it must have
> sometimes seemed that most of the populace were drunken useless drifters in
> need of everything, as Danny and his companions were.
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> Doc’s cynicism on the condition of man was understandable.  On Cannery
> Row, there were workers slaving in the cannery with every last ounce of
> strength, capitalists who owned the place and made most of the money, a
> motley mixture of writers and poets, the crowd of drunks, and him.
> Steinbeck uses Doc as a mouthpiece for his own political views, and is
> brilliant.  Even if one disagrees with Doc, you come away liking him,
> particularly after how he was in Sweet Thursday.
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