Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 22:57:47 -0330 (NST)
From: Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs-AT-morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: PLC: Re: Be a friend of A Friend



On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Thomas E. Hart wrote:

> Regarding the quote:
> 
>   "There are two kinds of people in the world;
>          those who divide people into two kinds,
>          and those who don't."
> 
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Hmmm... Surely, after having pawned his watch to buy the combs, O Henry
would say something like (maybe not *exactly* like):

Those who don't divide people into two kinds are themselves one of two
kinds of people and those who do divide people into two kinds are also one
of two kinds. Both groups hence share a common characteristic:
being one of two kinds. Which means that we cannot have two totally
different kinds of people. Hence, the claim that there are two different
kinds of people is true only if these different kinds have something in
common: being one of two kinds. And so it comes to pass that logic
dove-tails wonderously with the love and good cheer of the Holydays. May
they be joyous ones for you and yours. And may the New year bring us 
peace, tolerance, fellowship and understanding. Surely we all deserve it.
And for the Board-Members of PhilLit, for their supererogatory acts of
good will, extra strong vodka-eggnog (well try it first) and my best
version of O Holy Night - with some apologies to the Sainted Tenor, of
course. 

Rejoice!

W 

Walter C. Okshevsky
Faculty of Education
Memorial University
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