From jeff@spundreams.net.nospam Fri Aug 11 05:20:43 2000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: Lieberman: A Chronology From: Jeff Huo Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:20:43 -0500 In article <39938124.98880138@news.mindspring.com>, lparkinson@mindspring.com says... > kor2@midway.uchicago.edu (P. Korda) rhapsodized in blue: > > >In article , > >John S. Novak, III wrote: > >>On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:03:31 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > > > >>>Novak? Socialist? THAT is something that would be fun to watch. > >> > >>In the practical sense, maybe: "From each according to his ability, > >>to each according to what I allow him to have." > > > >That's not Socialist. That's Communist. > > > >So, shall we call you "Comerade GODLIKE Novak" from now on? > > I thought that worship of God was verbotten in the Communist > countries? > -- < cut camera to a vast square, surrounded by monolitic modernist architecture in the Heroic style, interspersed by giant idealized statues of workers, revolutionaries, etc. Hundreds of thousands of uniformed soldiers, cadres, and other leaders stand at attention before a tall, monolithic structure, at the top of which there is a giant portrait of man. His round, bearded face bore no mark of pain or fear or guilt. It was proud, and took pride in being proud; his expression was a strangely comforting blend of serene determination and certainty. [1] That same man stands at the head of the square, at the height of a massive dias --think the scene where the newly raised Cesear rides into the square in _Gladiator_, with appropriate theme music.> [Hundreds of thousands of voices in unison ] "ALL HAIL COMRADE GODLIKE NOVAK SIR!" [one really small but distinct voice in the silence that follows] "But wait, I thought we didn't worship God in this communist state?" [Amazingly, it gets even more silent.] [Novak speaks.] "That man is an enemy of the People. Kneecap his sorry ass, bind his wounds with salt-water compresses, then send him to bust perafrost at Gulag 21 till the glaciers roll back over the place." [the crackle of small arms fire and screaming.] "Anybody else want to make an editorial comment?" "NO, COMRADE -GODLIKE- NOVAK SIR!" --- -Jeff [1] alt.shrugged. -- Jeff Huo | jeff@spundreams.net.nospam (remove nospam) U. Michigan Med | http://www.spundreams.net/~jeff New to the group? Welcome! Please read http://www.landfield.com/faqs/sf/robert-jordan-faq/ http://www.spundreams.net/~jeff/rasfwrjians2.html