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| single | 3-Nov-2009 | books/literature | cprasky | by votes | 38 | 3 | 58.1% |
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| User | Comment |
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| icurok | posted 3-Nov-2009 8:53am |
| bill | posted 3-Nov-2009 10:37am Kanye West |
| Richard47 | posted 3-Nov-2009 5:46pm I see nebulous, Milky Way & planet....so I immediately think of Carl Sagan. |
| Enheduanna | posted 3-Nov-2009 10:02pm Despite an attempt to sound laudatory, I suspect this of being a preamble to an anti-Jewish screed. Eichmann is the only Nazi on the list, so I'll go with him. |
| Enheduanna | posted 3-Nov-2009 10:03pm Apparently it's Mark Twain. |
| coffee5437 | posted 3-Nov-2009 11:50pm I guessed C.S. Lewis so now I can hardly wait to see... |
| cprasky | (reply to Enheduanna) posted 4-Nov-2009 7:21am > Despite an attempt to sound laudatory, I suspect this of being a preamble
> to an anti-Jewish screed. Eichmann is the only Nazi on the list, so > I'll go with him. Well, I threw Eichmann in there for a couple of reasons. First, just for the potential irony involved. He was after all the engineer for Hitlers Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Second, because of the actual irony involved. Eichmann was born and raised in Palestine, was educated by a Zionist Rabbi and spoke fluent Hebrew. When the Mosad kidnapped him in Argentina in 1962, he told his captors, "I was always on the side of the Jews." |
| cprasky | (reply to Richard47) posted 4-Nov-2009 7:33am > I see nebulous, Milky Way & planet....so I immediately think of Carl
> Sagan. And that's why I threw him into the mix. Not him though. |
| they | posted 4-Nov-2009 9:11am I wish I knew more about each of the people on your list to make a better guess.
I noticed while I was staring at the options that 7/10 of these end in an 'n'. So, without any logic whatsoever, I chose Theo Roosevelt. |
| they | (reply to Enheduanna) posted 4-Nov-2009 9:17am > Despite an attempt to sound
> laudatory, I suspect this > of being a preamble to an > anti-Jewish screed. Eichmann > is the only Nazi on the list, > so I'll go with him. I read through it several times. I can see it both ways. It does appear to be a tribute to Jews... but at the same time, it is questioning them in a way that makes me suspicious. Perhaps I should research Mark Twain. Since you looked it up, do you know if this was written from the position of hate or awe? |
| Enheduanna | (reply to cprasky) posted 4-Nov-2009 11:43am > Eichmann was born and raised in Palestine,
> was educated by a Zionist Rabbi and spoke fluent Hebrew. What?! I don't think that's true. |
| Enheduanna | (reply to they) posted 4-Nov-2009 11:53am I didn't actually get that far when I looked yesterday, but I just went back and looked today. Apparently Twain was quite the champion of the Jews. The passage in this survey is the end of a fairly long essay Twain wrote for Harper's Magazine. Here's a little background. |
| jettles | (reply to cprasky) posted 4-Nov-2009 11:57am Eichmann was born and raised in Palestine,
> was educated by a Zionist Rabbi and spoke fluent Hebrew. i can't find this referenced anywhere.............................. i agree with enheduanna, i don't think this is right. |
| they | (reply to Enheduanna) posted 4-Nov-2009 2:29pm This is really interesting |
| Richard47 | (reply to cprasky) posted 4-Nov-2009 5:48pm > |> I see nebulous, Milky Way & planet....so I immediately think
> of Carl > |> Sagan. > > > And that's why I threw him into the mix. Not him though. > Alas, I tried!!!! |
| cprasky | (reply to Enheduanna) posted 4-Nov-2009 10:21pm > |> Eichmann was born and raised in Palestine,
> |> was educated by a Zionist Rabbi and spoke fluent Hebrew. > > What?! I don't think that's true. > > Well, apparently you're right. According to Wikipedia, he was born in Solingen, Germany and didn't get to Palestine until 1937. Hmm, I could swear I read somewhere he was born in Palestine, but don't remember where I read that. |
| cprasky | (reply to jettles) posted 5-Nov-2009 8:26am > Eichmann was born and raised in Palestine,
> |> was educated by a Zionist Rabbi and spoke fluent Hebrew. > > i can't find this referenced anywhere.............................. > i agree with enheduanna, i don't think this is right. > > Yes, Eheduanna is right. Apparently, I'm going senile. |
| Enheduanna | (reply to they) posted 5-Nov-2009 11:25am You're welcome! |
| FordGuy | (reply to Enheduanna) posted 5-Nov-2009 6:27pm Anytime. |
| jettles | (reply to cprasky) posted 6-Nov-2009 7:49pm |
| cprasky | (reply to jettles) posted 7-Nov-2009 9:07pm > > would know if you were senile??!! I'm going by external clues here. I am still positive I read this somewhere. I am thinking either in The House on Garibaldi Street or William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but since I can't track down my copies of either of these right now, I have to be content with what I can track down on the web for now. I'll check this out further though. |
| risingroad | posted 8-Nov-2009 11:02am Since he was thought to be "retarded" in school when indeed he was a jew in an all christian school therefore subdued and non-interactive with the other children. Albert Einstein. Or was it Jesus Christ? |
| risingroad | (reply to cprasky) posted 8-Nov-2009 11:06am So who is / was it? |
| Gomezy3k | posted 8-Nov-2009 11:47am Interesting that it was Twain. I guessed that it was either H.L Mencken or possibly Heinlein and finally picked Mencken. |
| cprasky | (reply to risingroad) posted 8-Nov-2009 2:16pm > So who is / was it?
Mark Twain. I thought Enheduanna had made tha clear. |
| risingroad | (reply to cprasky) posted 10-Nov-2009 10:11am > |> So who is / was it?
> > > > Mark Twain. I thought Enheduanna had made tha clear. > > > Sometimes the conversations go back and forth so much I lose the string of thought. Must have missed it. :o) |
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Firstly, the writing style is full of Twain's wit and insight. Secondly, the survey about a Mark Twain quotation created last week!