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   Shez to dmh7@skypoint.com   
   Re: Practical magick.   
   02 Mar 05 21:09:12   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article <42261F12.3090900@skypoint.com>, Dale Houstman   
    writes   
   >   
   >   
   >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   
   >   
   You write poetry on old Xmas wrapping paper...?   
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