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   Dale Houstman to Rob Evans   
   Re: Practical magick.   
   02 Mar 05 14:16:18   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: dmh7@skypoint.com   
      
   Rob Evans wrote:   
   > In message <4225D64F.3020900@skypoint.com>, Dale Houstman   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Pip wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Dale Houstman"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:42232390.4070905@skypoint.com...   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rhyanon wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Ooh, grammar lames, a sign of having no wit with which to do battle.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ooh, magick, a sign of having no ability to deal with the world as   
   >>>> it is.   
   >>>   
   >>>   Well, you forget that the "world" is not the same as it was only 50   
   >>> years   
   >>> ago.  Much less 300 years ago.  And the world that you tidily inhabit   
   >>> now,   
   >>> will not be the same one 50 years from now, much less 300 years from   
   >>> now.   
   >>> So expand your thinking.   
   >>>  Pip   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> We're talking to people who still believe in "magick" and you think   
   >> that I'm the one who has to "expand" my thinking?   
   >>   
   > They can do magickk because they are wizzards, apparently.  Alas, we are   
   > only poets and cannot expand our name to include double ckonsonants.   
   >   
   > Rrobb   
      
   I'm a "ppoett." That's to differentiate it from mere "poet" which is a   
   person who merely writes words on a piece of paper. A "ppoett" on the   
   other hand, writes words on a piece of gilded paper.   
      
   dmh   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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