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To: hinckley buzzard
It is a better thing to cultivate wonder at the mysteries of the real world, rather than to besot the imagination with idle fantasies...

That's right, because there is no use imagining what Troy was like. And heaven knows that Hissilick where Dergfeld (sp?) and Schliemann dug could not be Troy, because there was no mention of Troy before Homer and Homer just made all that wacky stuff up to sell books and make money. It was like a Spielberg production.

Might as well toss Herodotus and Thucydides out as sources too. I mean what over active imaginations? No one wrote about some fabled Persian invasion of Greece before... and mice eating the Persian bowstrings? Man, it's all fantasy. We should just focus on what's on now. Where's the remote control?

50 posted on 12/07/2001 5:37:37 AM PST by valhallasone
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94 posted on 12/07/2001 10:42:40 AM PST by GretchenEE
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To: valhallasone
Huh??
114 posted on 12/07/2001 5:50:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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