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   Martha Bridegam to Joe Fineman   
   Re: Such, such, was Eric Blair   
   07 Mar 09 19:31:04   
   
   From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   >...   
   > The U.S. is no better & no worse a place than India for such relics.   
   > Let Mr Bedi open a pub at Walden Pond where they can be displayed.   
      
   We finally drove by Walden Pond this past Christmas. Lovely, but why did   
   they have to put up a gift shop? Maybe that's where the pub should go.   
      
   Rgds/M   
      
   P.S. Have been less impressed with Thoreau since reading that the whole   
   time he was "roughing it," he was sending home his laundry to his   
   mother. When was her turn for contemplation?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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