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From: tim@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.motss
Subject: Re: responsibility, sensitivity, (actually "Depression")
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 13:47:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 13:47:28 1986
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In article <467@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
>Depression is a curious state, that frequently baffles and
>vexes the friends of the depressed person.  One thesis is
>that the depressed person has lost touch with reality.
 ...
>Imagine how Gallileo felt, or Spinoza,
>or Alan Turing, when, at the time they were active, their
>community failed to appreciate their work, rejected it,
>rejected them.  I suspect they had bouts of depression.
>Turing committed suicide.  Here we are thirty years later,
>and a tiny fraction of society are able to appreciate
>Turing's work.

I'd always heard that Turing committed suicide because he was
a homosexual, and couldn't bear living that way (living, as he
did, at a time and place when it was considered a crime).

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	Life is like an onion; you keep peeling off the layers,
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				- Carl Sandburg
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---> Tim Bessie ----- {ucbvax,dual}!unisoft!tim
---> Unisoft Systems; 739 Allston Way; Berkeley, CA 94710
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