Re: virus: How Does a Shaman Pay?

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 11 Aug 97 23:15:29 -0400


>By *not* revealing his/her ideas directly, they are capable of saying
>things that others are *scared* to say. The mystery is a profound cloak
>for the truths no one wants to face. And yet they must.

Well, to provide even more denigration of the shaman (my wont, after
all....) what you describe above is a fair description of the purpose of
the Comedy in the Greek theatre. It is also practically a verbatim quote
from Aristotle about this purpose.

I would thus declare you have made a saint of Homer Simpson.

Hail Bob.

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