[extropy-chat] The Poetry of Stupidity

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Sep 12 19:37:59 UTC 2006


I see the New York Times has this headline today:

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She Dreamed of the Stars; Now She'll Almost Touch Them
By WARREN E. LEARY
On Monday, Anousheh Ansari is scheduled to become the first
woman to go into space as an amateur astronaut.

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So apparently word has not yet reached the NYT that the stars are 
*not*, after all, just up there slightly beyond space station orbit, 
stuck on a crystal sphere.

It's not that I'm against poetry, dog knows, but for some reason this 
mawkish reversion to childhood really irritates the shit out of me.

Damien Broderick




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