On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > [refrains from smiting me] Go ahead if you like - I'm still a Fosterite, though I acknowledge the ruck of writers aren't. > > Actually I'm giving in to the flood of wrongness, a rather unSethran > > choice I think... > > To the left, taking Fowler as an authority also doesn't strike me as > very Sethran. On the gripping hand, taking Sethra as your role model > (if that's what you're doing) doesn't strike me as very prudent for > most of us. I have no desire to be alive hundreds of thousands of years from now - The best thing would have been never to have been born, to quote Heine. ( http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pommeren/Gedichte/HeineNachlese/morphine.htm http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=19764&poem=195364 ) But [microscopic spoiler for _The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain_] we have seen S rely on authority without question - StY on the gods, for example, or the Necromancer on holes...