From: LordHogarth@hotmail.com   
      
   "Pete Bayle"  wrote in message   
   news:8d9486cd.0405201249.1782294a@posting.google.com...   
   > selene1022v@yahoo.com (selene1022) wrote in message   
   news:...   
   > > "A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion"    
   wrote in message news:<2h03o2F7ftm4U1@uni-berlin.de>...   
   > > > Just checking in, after many months away, and I see nothing from The   
   > > > Moderator, Martha Bridegam.  Does she prosper?  What about O.M.   
   Deveson?  Or   
   > > > the delightful Bonnie?  Pleased to see Bayle has stuck it out, and   
   Selene   
   > > > too.   
   > > >   
   > > > Yrs.,   
   > > > Jack Hogarth   
   > >   
   > >  Great to see you Jack. You missed it! Please go back and check the   
   > > threads surround Dame Martha's grand exit! It should bring a chuckle.   
   > > How are the cigars? Is Aspen still on this year?   
   > >   
   > > JV   
   >   
   > Hey Jack ...   
   >   
   > While you were off Voluptuizing the unwashed have taken over   
   > Versailles. The Queen is gone. Her Court, advocates of enlightened   
   > absolutism and decorous conformity more than friends of liberty and   
   > the free chaos of ideas, have mostly dispersed to other realms - where   
   > they construct their utopias and pass their moral judgements in peace   
   > and unopposed.   
      
   Were Old Man Deveson and that chap who was procrastinating over his   
   dissertation among them?   
      
   >Controlled forums where no one will impolitely force   
   > them to look into the telescope and see the real world. Where none of   
   > their lessers might point out that the emperor has, in fact, no   
   > clothes.   
   >   
   > After the deluge, Selene and Robbie and I, along with Moyehoist - a   
   > Ulkrainian Orwellian - and a few others, have been arguing for our   
   > interpretation of the meaning and spirit of Orwell and the lessons for   
   > our times, largely unopposed. The old guard have ceded the field.   
      
   Glad to see Robbie's still about, and this Moyehoist sounds interesting.  I   
   knew that if you could stick it out here, along with Selene, Mabby and her   
   crowd would eventually pick-up their petticoats in disgust and leave.  They   
   hated dissent.  I just never had the patience to chip away at them.   
      
   > The cavalry is no longer needed, though always welcome ;-)   
      
   Well!  My steed was actually just a donkey, but now that the place is almost   
   civilized I'll come back more often.   
      
   Jack   
      
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