From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
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   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   > > "ROBBIE"  wrote in message   
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   > >> "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > >> news:hSyMf.16852$2O6.597@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...   
   > >>> "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise   
   > >>> above."   
   > >>>   
   > >> Do you say that out loud at San Fran Pride?   
   > >>   
   > >> ROBBIE   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > But Martha hasn't answered my question.   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > > 'Same as it ever was; same as it ever was; same as it ever was' Once in   
   a   
   > > Lifetime, Talking Heads.   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > Fear and hatred of difference is a natural, or at least an   
   > easily evoked, inclination that takes rising above. That's   
   > what the parade is about.   
      
   It may have been once; if it's anything like the London one it's just an   
   exhibitionistic, smug, self-indulgent cruise.   
      
    >What's your point?   
      
   That your quote could sit quite happily in the mouth of a vengeful   
   pentacostal preacher, a nun or a jesuit. I can almost imagine Hitler saying   
   it about vegetarianism or cruelty to dogs or something.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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