| Book 2 #36 12/27/00
10:09:19 AM
Hello Friend,
would you consider granting
me permission to send you information?
POLITENESS is the art
of pleasing.
Here's an example of
your potential
we use our private database
of thousands of known
"extremists" those who
presume to affirm with great obstinacy
that whereof they are
ignorant, those opposed to any and all,
and are "carried about
with every wind of doctrine"
and kicked off every
one we could find.
That, to me, is a very,
very serious omission.
If you feel you have
been placed on my list in error,
I sincerely apologize.
pleasing is the art
of politeness.
There were a lot of
people coming and going,
we sorted them into
easy-to-manage packets
maybe I do have some
ingrained beliefs and
characteristics because
of being exposed
to an "impersonal" but
quite lucid self,
it's just that I can't
consciously put a finger to them
nor clearly ascertain
whether the changes could be expounded consistently.
Our research has found
that many people
a lot of women, a lot
of men,
have tried one or more
of the following...
to join in good society;
to enter (social intercourse);
to go up;
to rise;
to climb up (the social
ladder);
to advance;
to be promoted;
to improve;
to accrue (an honorable
yet delicate reputation);
to be finished (with
innocence and childhood dreams);
to go bankrupt (spiritually
and morally);
to begin spinning (cocoons
of beautiful yet fabricated details);
to be caught (up in
a whirlwind of public events);
to get ruffled (by questions
and circumstances unanticipated);
to eat;
to drink;
to die;
like a people blinded,
becoming masters of
error rather than disciples of truth.
I was suspicious, but
I couldn't prove anything.
what is going on in
America is a cultural war
Beauty itself loses
its attraction, when disfigured by affectation.
on that point I want
to share some thoughts with my colleagues
because I think it is
relevant
I think each of us in
our own way
are going to have to
be prepared to answer that question
even if you never tell
a soul.
Please disabuse yourself
of that notion because I'm not
(your friend).
Cecil
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