Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!cosi!bill
From: bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid (LONG)
Summary: Ambiguity
Message-ID: <114@cosi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 15:56:36 GMT
References:  <445@mccc.UUCP>
Organization: COS, Inc.
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In article <445@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> 	I doubt that anything I could say would impress you.  If you
> don't understand the difference between "religious and intellectual
> works" on the one hand and "jokes" on the other, I'm afraid I can't help you.
> 
> Pete

Pete,

Was Jonathan's Swift's "A Modest Proposal" a joke,  or an intellectual work?

Bill


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