Re: More on the labor theory of value

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> some of my best friends are Philistines.

Not all Philistines are philistines.

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> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Shane Mage [mailto:shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >  Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:36 AM
> >  To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject: Re: [PEN-L] More on the labor theory of value
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> >
> >  JD wrote:
> >  "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain
> >  (paraphrased).
> >
> >  Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary
> >  American standards of musical performance, not a philistine
> >  denegration of one of the greatest composers ever.
> >
> >  Shane Mage
> >
> >  "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
> >  things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
> >  downright silly.
> >
> >  When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
> >  things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N.
> >  Weiner)