<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To defend John Clark (who needs defending about as much as<br>a sting ray needs a BB gun)</blockquote><div><br> No, no, no... The range for sting rays & BB guns is very short range (though BB guns exceed string rays -- but less so in water -- because of the delivery method John's range is potentially much longer.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> in the same way that two copies of _The Spike_ are<br>> often said loosely [sic] to be the "same book".
<br><br>Loosely? That *is* the common way of speaking, and<br>if I say that my fiancee and I found upon meeting that<br>we had read the same book, no one would suppose<br>that we merely read the same particular copy.</blockquote>
<div><br>God Lee, Damien didn't tell you... Due to publisher funding restrictions, Damien only had half a million monkeys to assemble the pages -- he authored the words but the paragraph and page assembly was done under contract. They had to have a bunch of gamestations pick up the slack. So I am not so sure that you two may have read the same book. They could have been quite different books but given enough similar impressions and you could have manufactured a *belief* that you read the same book. But you did not verify it. So you may be both be operating in false delusion driven realities.
<br><br>Sad, very sad, to see fine extropian individuals being driven into such situations.<br><br>Robert<br><br>P.S. sorry for any previous non-content containing posts -- problem due to trying to do an email and chat at the same time. (Bad bad bad -- I'm too old for these modern technological systems)...
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