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New Excellent. A few more.
[link|http://chat.carleton.ca/~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html|Here]:

MAJORITY RULE

His party was the Brotherhood of Brothers,
and there were more of them than of the others.
That is, they constituted that minority
which formed the greater part of the majority.
Within the party, he was of the faction
that was supported by the greater fraction.
And in each group, within each group, he sought
the group that could command the most support.
The final group had finally elected
a triumvirate whom they all respected.
Now, of these three, two had final word,
because the two could overrule the third.
One of these two was relatively weak,
so one alone stood at the final peak.
He was: THE GREATER NUMBER of the pair
which formed the most part of the three that were
elected by the most of those whose boast
it was to represent the most of the most
of most of most of the entire state --
or of the most of it at any rate.
He never gave himself a moment's slumber
but sought the welfare of the greater number.
And all people, everywhere they went,
knew to their cost exactly what it meant
to be dictated to by the majority.
But that meant nothing, -- they were the minority.


THE CASE FOR OBSCURITY
On Thoughts and Words I.

If no thought
your mind does visit,
make your speech
not too explicit.


:-)

Thanks for the pointer. He's lots of fun- and wise.

Cheers,
Scott.
New He's a Danish National Treasure; d. 1996 at age 91.
He wrote many small (paperback size, thin) books of Grooks
I have 7; dunno how many are OP / still available (or in how many countries).

Not bad English for a Dane, eh?
(They are't translations or transliterations, BTW)

Danmark.. they managed to get all but a handful of their Jews to Sweden, ahead of the Nazis. No other country came even close. (Not even U.S., when one considers the blind-eye paid at several key decision-points)

I do hope that no significant %pop there has become Muricanized.
Last I saw of it, driving around with native guide, it was a verdant gorgeous countryside and decent towns. Tivoli, the ADULT amusement park in K\ufffdbenhavn was the model which Disney Bowdlerized / de-classed and homogenized for local consumption and max-$generation.



(I need to retain Some illusions.. so DON'T GOOGLE the '00s *$&*#% %idiocy STATS, OK?)

PS - but THIS Google be \ufffdine :-)
Hadn't looked on web for Piet in a while - imagine: Thousands!

Expand Edited by Ashton Aug. 20, 2005, 09:26:48 PM EDT
Expand Edited by Ashton Aug. 20, 2005, 10:11:50 PM EDT
     Salt of the earth - (rcareaga) - (24)
         ICLRPD (new thread) - (ben_tilly)
         Depressing! - (a6l6e6x)
         Agree, depressing -NT - (slugbug)
         I thought I was pessimistic - (warmachine) - (2)
             But note that.. - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 Good point -NT - (warmachine)
         One cannot become inured to such ones - (Ashton) - (2)
             Excellent. A few more. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                 He's a Danish National Treasure; d. 1996 at age 91. - (Ashton)
         Uhhh, Mary...you left out a syllable... - (jb4) - (4)
             I got it! - (imqwerky) - (3)
                 Another frog gets it in the shorts. -NT - (pwhysall)
                 You're blonde, aren't you? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     There are some who are glad I pointed it out. :-P -NT - (imqwerky)
         I thought basic education was compulsory in the US -NT - (tuberculosis) - (8)
             You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 You can make him drown if he doesn't though - (tuberculosis)
             Religious education at home starts before state education - (warmachine) - (5)
                 Reminds me of a short book.... - (dmcarls)
                 Actually, personal circumstances have me hoping to win the - (boxley) - (3)
                     The little monster hasn't settled down yet, eh? :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - (2)
                         no trip to movies at apres 7pm got a - (boxley) - (1)
                             That would be an interesting world! - (Another Scott)
         Mary could be just about anyone in Indiana. -NT - (mmoffitt)

Well as long as I don't breathe, there's always a chance that I won't need oxygen.
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