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   Joe Fineman to Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward   
   Re: Wigan Pier: what's a gas-pipe chair?   
   04 Jun 05 21:06:58   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward"  writes:   
      
   > I must check out Erewhon next.   
      
   It's available online:   
   http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/10/2377/frameset.html   
      
   In Chapters 23-25, he applied Darwinian ideas, then very new, to the   
   evolution of machines.  They progress by favoring the people who   
   develop them, with pleasure and with power.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  Beside myself is too close for comfort.  :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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