> -----Original Message----- > From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info > [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Philip Hart > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:01 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: eternal recurrence > > There's a CIA officer named Brant Bassett in the news of late > - he was active in what's been called the "personnel bloodletting" > in the agency the last few years and he's mixed up in the > prostitution/poker/corruption controversy that's beginning to > hit page 1 and just took down the #3 guy (and possibly the #1). > Oh, and he's known as "Nine Fingers". > Wow. Just like Frodo. (After returning from Mordor, Frodo opened a brothel in Bag End called "The House of the Rising Silmaril." It's been the ruin of many a poor dwarf, and Gimli (son of Gloin) is one.)