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iamnotaparakeet
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30 Nov 2007, 11:10 am

ManErg wrote:
H.G. Wells wrote an interesting story about this, where a one eyed man stumbles upon an island where everyone is genetically blind. Out hero doesn't become king though, the non-sighted just *know* that the sighted man is lying and is a total aberration to humanity, so they abuse him out and kill him for being a heretic, or somesuch. So it should be "In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is persecuted and probably winds up crucified"


He could just walk away.



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01 Dec 2007, 10:50 am

"Have a nice day" is another one of those phrases that has been reduced to bumper sticker banality.