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SteveMR200

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Dec 8, 2009, 8:35:01 AM12/8/09
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In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to
go out but no way to go in again. But as for the
heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but
no way to go out.
--Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Paradise")

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The Punter

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I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going
to paradise and I'm not worried.
~ Mike Tyson, comments post-fight with Francois Botha at the MGM Grand
in Las Vegas - quoted in BBC News (January 17, 1999)

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The Punter
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SteveMR200

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On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:22:05 GMT, The Punter wrote in message:
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>On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:35:01 -0800, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
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>
>> In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to
>> go out but no way to go in again. But as for the
>> heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but
>> no way to go out.
>> --Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
>> (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
>> of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Paradise")
>__________________________________________
>
>I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when
>I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.
> ~ Mike Tyson, comments post-fight with Francois Botha at the MGM Grand
> in Las Vegas - quoted in BBC News (January 17, 1999)

This world, which has the potential to be Eden,
is instead the hell before Hell. In our
arrogance, we have made it so.
--"Odd Thomas"
(The narrator of Dean Koontz's
_Forever Odd_ [2005], Chapter 2)

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Steve

libreria

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Dec 15, 2009, 11:59:12 PM12/15/09
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SteveMR200 wrote:

> This world, which has the potential to be Eden,
> is instead the hell before Hell. In our
> arrogance, we have made it so.

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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world. They suffer so
much from critics and publishers in this.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee 1820-1904


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bobgnome

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"libreria" <LIBRE...@XCAPSbigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> SteveMR200 wrote:
>
>> This world, which has the potential to be Eden,
>> is instead the hell before Hell. In our
>> arrogance, we have made it so.
> ______________________________________
>
> There is probably no hell for authors in the next world. They suffer so
> much from critics and publishers in this.
> ~ Christian Nestell Bovee 1820-1904
>
>
> --
> //libreria

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The want of human interest is always felt.
"Paradise Lost" is one of the books which
the reader admires and lays down, and
forgets to take up again. None ever wished
it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty
rather than a pleasure.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
_Lives of the Poets_ [1779-1781]

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Roo Barb

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Dec 22, 2009, 7:59:10 PM12/22/09
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bobgnome wrote:
> The want of human interest is always felt.
> "Paradise Lost" is one of the books which
> the reader admires and lays down, and
> forgets to take up again. None ever wished
> it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty
> rather than a pleasure.
> --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
> _Lives of the Poets_ [1779-1781]
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Indeed, the whole of Milton's poem [Paradise Lost] is such barbarous
trash, so outrageously offensive to reason and to common sense that one
is naturally led to wonder how it can have been tolerated by a people,
amongst whom astronomy, navigation and chemistry are understood.
~ William Cobbett 1763 � 1835, A Year's Residence in the United States
of America (1819)

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SteveMR200

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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:59:10 GMT, Roo Barb wrote in message:
<yXdYm.64110$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:

>Indeed, the whole of Milton's poem [Paradise Lost] is such barbarous
>trash, so outrageously offensive to reason and to common sense that one
>is naturally led to wonder how it can have been tolerated by a people,
>amongst whom astronomy, navigation and chemistry are understood.

>~ William Cobbett 1763 - 1835, A Year's Residence in the United States
> of America (1819)

Professor Dave Jennings: (Donald Sutherland)
Now, what can we say of John Milton's _Paradise Lost_?

[No response from bored English literature students]

Professor Dave Jennings:
Well, it's a very long poem, written a long time
ago and I'm sure a lot of you have difficulty
understanding exactly what Milton was trying to
say. Certainly, we know that he was trying to
describe the struggle between good and evil, right?

[No response from bored English literature students]

Professor Dave Jennings:
Okay, the most intriguing character--as we all
know from our reading--was Satan. Now, was Milton
trying to tell us that being bad was more fun than
being good?

[No response from bored English literature students]

Professor Dave Jennings:
[sigh] Okay. Don't write this down, but I find
Milton probably as boring as you find Milton.
Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little
bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well
into our generation, and his jokes were terrible.

--Monologue from the film _Animal House_ [1978],
written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and
Chris Miller

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Steve

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