From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu May 10 21:19:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 11 May 2001 04:19:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 2021 invoked from network); 11 May 2001 04:19:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 May 2001 04:19:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout4-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.120) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 May 2001 04:19:04 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout4-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f4B4HAK15305 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 00:17:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.101]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 00:17:10 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14y4Lp-0001mk-00 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 00:16:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:16:25 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] so'o preti Message-ID: <20010511001625.A6822@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <01051023232303.00926@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <01051023232303.00926@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:14:06PM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." A = what you had been B = what A would have appeared to them to be, under other circumstances C = what you were or might have been D = the idea that C is the same as B E = others' concept of you, when they believe that D is true Removing some double negatives from the beginning, the sentence seems to say, "Imagine yourself to be something other than E". -- Rob Speer