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Reply #30 - May 17, 2015, 02:54 PM

Was it a recording of him singing?

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #31 - May 17, 2015, 03:15 PM

No! Originals he loved them! My cousins said they all used to watch University Challenge together and he would answer the questions - correctly!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #32 - May 17, 2015, 03:36 PM

I have had a general puzzlement here about threads discussing family issues, how is it that the parents have got so stuck in their attitudes?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #33 - May 17, 2015, 03:55 PM

I thought about this in my teens, while I was at a point I was noticing my sense of time was changing. 0-2, 7-9, 11-13, just two years brought about such profound change. We change so fast when we're young. There's such a huge difference between say a 14 year old and a 16 year old. But as we get older those changes lessen. When I hit my late teens I was very aware that birthdays and Christmas' were occurring faster than I'd ever perceived before. The changes I went through from 21-23, 23-25 were nothing compared to what I used to go through during those short years at earlier periods of my life. Ever since my late teens I've been changing to an increasingly lesser degree with every year that goes by. What changed, as far as I can tell, was my sense of time. The older we get, the quicker times goes. The changes in two years you can experience between 14 and 16 can take decades after a certain development point. Perhaps time is the crux of it.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #34 - May 17, 2015, 04:41 PM

That might be it, he never lost a learning, exploratory, being alive attitude.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #35 - May 17, 2015, 04:48 PM

Hopefully that will also be true of myself.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #36 - June 10, 2015, 07:52 PM

Reading Justine again! It is an awful
But brilliant plot and very very funny once the rude bits are in context! I was tempted to give away the plot but there are free versions on line, and I can't comment on translations and possible bowdlerisation !

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #37 - June 10, 2015, 07:54 PM

The arguments against morality and religion are superb!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #38 - June 10, 2015, 08:43 PM

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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