XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books   
   From: faminiter@comcast.net   
      
   On 7/7/2011 1:46 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The   
   > Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often   
   > engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an   
   > emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the   
   real   
   > world. The other, of course, involves orcs."   
   >   
   > I saw that on Jeffrey Turner's sig in the alt.usage.english newsgroup. I   
   don't   
   > know if it was original with him, or an unattributed quotation from someone   
   > else, but I liked it, so I thought I'd put it here.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The truly sad consequence of the lifelong obsession and   
   crippled adulthood is that it creates supply-side Tea Party   
   Republicans.   
      
   --   
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
   Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.   
   Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,   
   Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.   
      
   William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman   
   	Passus I, lines 33 - 35   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)