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   Paul S Person to bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
   Re: I am annoyed   
   24 Jan 26 08:21:06   
   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:09:54 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/23/26 09:04, Paul S Person wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> BTW, don't get steamed up over "French" "Jesuits" and "little girls".   
   >> The book is about legal and related machinations to control the vast   
   >> fortune their parents' left them. Apparently, in whatever past century   
   >> this was written, the French still had standards for what could be   
   >> printed.   
   >   
   >	Well embezzlement on the part of clericals would not have been   
   >approved of in print a few generations earlier.  Now-a-days sexual abuse   
   >by clericals in the course of embezzlement would be demanded by   
   >some presses. Scandalatum Magnum! sells to some groups.  Some   
   >who will be outraged publically by the disclosures.   
      
   Yes, in retrospect one can sense the Hand of Voltaire influencing the   
   culture to allow such a work to be published.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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