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|    mark lewis to Anton Shepelev    |
|    An exercise in transation    |
|    04 Jul 19 08:21:36    |
      REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5d1dd320       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d1df051       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15        On 2019 Jul 04 13:21:20, you wrote to you:               AS>> Lying on wet snow in wait of a near death, Bianca        AS>> suddenly emembered [...]               AS> `near' does not sound well to me, but am hard put to find        AS> one that fits the intended meaning of a death that will come        AS> soon. A quick death may be misunderstood as having a short        AS> duration.              "near death" means close to death... in the above passage, bianca is waiting       to almost die when she remembers something...              looking up "near death experience" may help provide a little more information       on the actual action but "near death" by itself just means "close to death" or       "almost dead"...              just a lowly american shooting from the hip again...              )\/(ark              And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was       so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected       up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing       the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn       it off.       ... Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 120 123 15/2 16/0 18/0 116/116 120/544 123/0 25 50 130       SEEN-BY: 123/131 150 755 135/300 153/7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 360       SEEN-BY: 226/17 227/114 229/354 426 1014 240/1120 2100 5138 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003 317/3 320/119 219 322/0 757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 460/58 640/1321 1384 712/848 2454/119 3634/0 12 15 24 27       SEEN-BY: 3634/50       PATH: 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 320/219 240/5832 229/426           |
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