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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: it's turtles all the way down
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Date: 15 Apr 91 04:33:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: akbloom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu's message of 15 Apr 91 00:21:32 GMT

In article <1991Apr15.002132.29831@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
akbloom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Keith Bloom) writes:

| rjm@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Robert J. McArthur) writes:

| An older reference:  Carl Sagan, "Broca's Brain", 1978, ch. 24: Gott 
| and the Turtles. 
| 
| Can anyone find an even older one?

I heard it attributed to Henry James.
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?