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  Re: Should private schools be banned?  
From: Darren New
Date: 4 Jan 2010 17:43:58
Message: <4b426f2e$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   That's a bit like saying that everybody should have the same 
>>> quality of
>>> vision, and to do that, we make everybody blind so that now truly 
>>> everybody
>>> will be equal in terms of vision. That's just silly.
>>
>> Wasn't it Harlan Ellison who did a short story about that? And it's 
>> turning into a film now, I think?  I couldn't find the name of it, tho.
>>
> 
> Is that the story where dancers were weighed down by chains and weights 
> and the protagonist rebelled and danced for all he was worth?

That's the one I was thinking of, yes.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.


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