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Re: [silk] flamebait of the week

<x-flowed>Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: [ on 12:11 AM 3/15/01 +0100 ]

Someone please remind me to keep believing in capitalism.
I'd hate it if this particular consensual reality would suddenly
collapse.

The most enduring image I have of the NASDAQ stock market crash is of the old Wile E. Coyote cartoons, where he can walk off a cliff on thin air, *until he looks down*. I don't remember who first made the connection, but it was memorable.

Udhay
--
The Alchemist's Guild is opposite the Gambler's Guild. Usually. Sometimes
it's above it, or below it, or falling in bits around it.
         (Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms)



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