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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Some Quotable Quotes
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 12:58:26 EST
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In article <156@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>
>From _The Name of the Rose_, by Umberto Eco; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
>
>          "`...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but
>     neither does he hate it.  Therefore, laughing at evil means not
>     preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying
>     the power through which good is self-propagating.'"

If I'm not mistaken, the above quote was the opinion of a man who, by his
actions, brought about the destruction of his own world. Which, to my
mind, puts a very different interpretation on the words than when they
occur out of context.

				Jeff Winslow