today's profundity

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 27 02:03:36 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "In a sense, we are all sons and daughters of our parents."

Heavy. I guess hippie-speak still lives. What's it going to take? A
silver bullet? A stake through its heart? Daylight? A philter?

OTOH, when you're right, you're right. The kernel of truth in the
statement is irrefutable.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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