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61 [lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: Kill Team -- rank: 199

... from a book that I don't much care for: Tolkien's Ring. Gandalf is jawing with Saruman, and suddenly stops ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Mar 29 17:46:42 PDT 2011

62 [lbo-talk] Sarkozy proposes measuring 'happiness' and 'well-being' to replace the 'cult of the market' -- rank: 199

--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Dwayne Monroe dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote ............ This explains a lot and helps me understand your obvious (and often repeated) disdain or distaste for conferences...and perhaps any sort of political activity not directly tied to ceaseless movement.         --------------not that it matters, but you ...

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Author:	mart
Date:	Tue Sep 22 14:13:32 PDT 2009

63 [lbo-talk] No Country for Exasperated Men -- rank: 199

... I become, a darkly shining thing, crisply alienated and, like Tolkien's Galadriel, simultaneously beautiful and terrible to behold. Yes, wholly ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Nov 23 13:28:30 PST 2009

64 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 199

... I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien > was a Rightwing Tory, but his text is a complete ...

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Author:	Michael McIntyre
Date:	Fri Nov 20 15:34:45 PST 2009

65 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 199

... I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien was a Rightwing Tory, but his text is a complete ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Fri Nov 20 14:59:55 PST 2009

66 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 199

National Lampoon would have to fit in there somewhere. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, socialismorbarbarism < socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote: > > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only > knew > > one other student ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Sat Mar 7 08:54:07 PST 2009

67 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 199

... The Trilogy [sic] of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; All four volumes of the teachings of Don Juan (and ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Fri Mar 6 23:06:32 PST 2009

68 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... Eubulides wrote: > Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your > geopolitcal vocabulary? :-) Actually, these ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Tue Jan 27 03:35:47 PST 2009

69 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... Eubulides wrote: > Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your > geopolitcal vocabulary? :-) Actually, these ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Mon Jan 26 23:23:23 PST 2009

70 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... era... > > -- DRR ============== Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your geopolitcal vocabulary? :-)

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Mon Jan 26 12:49:50 PST 2009

71 [lbo-talk] Local, Austin anti-bailout protesters... -- rank: 199

I haven't seen them...but I live a pretty sheltered life lately as I've been mostly locked in a room working on my diss. But there does seem to be this odd group of people down here that thinks he's up to something special, as if libertarianism is ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Thu Oct 2 13:58:09 PDT 2008

72 [lbo-talk] Recommended Reading -- rank: 199

... pillage and plunder. It is a toxic unity, which, like Tolkien's Ring-of-British-Empire, totally corrupts whosoever tries to ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Mar 18 14:20:35 PDT 2008

73 [lbo-talk] Thanks to the Frey program, I'm going to rich famous and beloved (was, More Dolan on Frey) -- rank: 199

... The Lord of the Rings (1954) Author: J.R.R. Tolkien "The book is not readable because of the overuse of ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:18:58 PST 2006

74 [lbo-talk] medical prose -- rank: 199

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7317/875/a> BMJ 2001;323:875 ( 13 October ) Reviews Soundings Deeply moving BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL - One of a doctor's unwritten roles is just to be there, to be a witness, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 15:07:20 PST 2005

75 [lbo-talk] From failed, surreal dreams to a plague of fantasies -- rank: 199

... more or less, the way we see *Star Trek* or > Tolkien's works. That's part of it. She has a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri May 6 22:30:20 PDT 2005