[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Miles Fidelman wrote in
 <1dbaca6c-d06c-5b61-f72b-78521ad2dce6 at meetinghouse.net>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso via Internet-history wrote:
 |> John Gilmore wrote in
 |>   <31017.1618347021 at hop.toad.com>:
 |>|Wasn't it Shakespeare, instead, who presaged the Internet in his Sonnet
 |>|44?
 |>|
 |>|  If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
 |>|  Injurious distance should not stop my way ...
 |>|
 |>|http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/44
 |>
 |> The Buddhists believe in a wholistic view.
 |> No lawyer gets Amazon or Ebay into that ring _i_ think.
 |> (Jesus did too, and see what they made of him, speaking of dull
 |> flesh.)
 |>
 |Or, we could go ALL the way back:  "In the beginning, there was the 
 |word." :-)

..which much too often still awaits the mature ear that it hears.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)