"The N-Word of the Narcissus." By Joseph Conrad

[Jocelyn Limpert]

Your animals may not have souls, but mine do -- at least as much as any
humans, many of whom don't seem to have much of a soul either! In fact,
those in the animal world are much more compatible (and smarter and blessed
with more common sense) than a disproportionately large number of our fellow
humans, the "n" word applying to many of them (as in "narcissistic") but not
to any animals I've met of either sex!


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Yeah, but animals don't have souls.
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> Also, if my n-word plan won't make me rich, forget it.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > rich
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> > Not!!!
> >
> > When I saw that title, I thought that it was meant to be a parody of
> > the P.C. mind-set. Pretty funny! Then, after I had looked it up and
> > discovered that it was a real book and that the editor meant his
> > version as a serious statement WRT racism, I was ROTFLMAO!
> >
> > (Now, if I could find a way to get people to realize that defaulting
> > to the *masculine* in cases like _actor_ vs. _actress_ hardly matters
> > in a language in which, e.g. chickens, hens, sheep, and cows are
> > routinely referred to as _he_ , as though the words cockerel,
> > cock/rooster, ram, and bull don't exist, and it seems to escape the
> > notice of everyone but me.)
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> > -Wilson
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> > 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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