Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: oppie Message-ID: <8910170108.AA03205@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 Oct 89 01:08:26 GMT References: <658289@mac.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 16 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Andy Tucker In article <658289@mac.Dartmouth.EDU> Julian West writes: >I think the goddess is Kali, not Shiva, and the quote is >"I _am_ become death, the destroyer of worlds." The _god_ is Vishnu. It's from the Bhagavad Gita---Vishnu takes his multi-armed form to impress the Prince into doing his duty and says "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." For a fascinating look at the people and events involved in the development of the atomic bomb, see Richard Rhodes' THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. -- Andy Tucker tucker@cs.stanford.edu "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ---Faulkner