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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Thoreau (Reply to Dan Asimov)
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 06:59:25 EST
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My E-Mail to Dan Asimov bounced.  Permit me to respond in public.

To: asimov@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Titles, Singles, and CS

Hi Dan,

Any relation to Isaac?  (Sorry--had to ask.  He's a hero of mine.)

Galileo, Spinoza, and Thoreau were ostracized by the entrenched authorities.
Thoreau spent a night in jail for his civil disobediance.  He exiled
hmself to Waldon Pond to seek his Utopian goal.  The creative intellectual
mind threatens conventional authority, by challenging the assumptions
upon which it rests.  Thomas Jefferson was one of the few who succeeded.
His adversary was an ocean away, and could not quash the rebellious
upstarts.  But I agree that Thoreau got off with a light sentence (literally)
compared to the others in my list.  Oh, yes--Shcharansky got away, too.

--Barry Kort   ...ihnp4!hounx!kort