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Skriven 2005-09-25 18:26:30 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ward Dossche
Ärende: Re: The Econuts!
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Hi Ward,

I'm glad you had an opportunity to read it.  It was a very acute observation 
from a different paradigm.  I'm far from the 'eco-nazi' mentality that he was 
(obviously) gearing his speech to, and so I thought it more humorous than 
anything else.  For those who are unaware, San Francisco appears to be a 
central hub for eco minded people.  However, these aren't your normal-run-of-
the-mill eco minded people, as most of us are, these are the 'supreme left' of 
the eco folks.  Some of them could be labeled eco-terrorists....

Cheers!
Shannon

On 9/23/2005 10:30 AM, Ward Dossche wrote to SHANNON TALLEY:

> Shannon,
>  
> > I'm not sure why that is relevant regarding his speech?  Perhaps you
> > should have read it.  You most certainly may or may not have agreed with
> > it, but I found it was a very interesting paradigm.
>  
> > -> Indeed ... Michael Crichton is a great writer of fiction ...
>  
> Michael Crichton is an excellent author, he taught English to my oldest son 
in
> this sense that he read "Jurassic Park", the hard-cover edition, in 1992 in 
the
> English version at age 8 without any formal foreign-language training.
>  
> Eventually he became a hard-core Crichton-reader devouring everything that 
was
> available.
>  
> In that speech he has some interesting points to highlight but they are not
> science.
>  
> I'll admit though that I made some of the same observations when in the 
winter
> of 1974-75 I was camping-out in the foothills of the Montana Rockies at a 
place
> called "Two Medicine", it was the former wintering place of the Pikuni, one 
of
> the 3 tribes making-up the Blackfeet-nation. It was f*****g cold and it was
> nothing compared to the romanticism of Indian lifestyle as we saw for example
> in "Dances with wolves". My admiration goes out to the people that lived 
there
> and survived but I had no craving to be part of it.
>  
> So far, Chrichton yet has to write "Eurassic Park" though.. :)
>  
> For Witt there will be a "Your Ass-ic Park" ... ;-)
>  
>  \%/@rd 
> 
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