"real time"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but you don't really *learn*. You learn *about*.

Also, I wonder if such vicarious learning happens in quite the same "real
time" that Gov. Pawlenti had in mind.

He seems to have meant "real life."

JL

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Some of us learn by reading about the travails of others.
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> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 5/30/2011 06:37 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >>Gov. Pawlenti explained to Christiane Amanpour on ABC yesterday that as a
> >>youth, he had learned various hard lessons about life "with my own eyes"
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> >>"in real time."
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> > Lovely.  What other way is there to learn *hard* lessons?  In dreams?
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> > And what a cast of Republican candidates.
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