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RE: What's the Point(less)?




Poster: Gregory Stapleton <gregsta@MICROSOFT.com>

Nope.
Gawain

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>From: 	Mark Schuldenfrei[SMTP:schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, July 17, 1996 11:17 AM
>To: 	atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu
>Subject: 	Re: What's the Point(less)?
>
>
>Poster: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>
>
>Greetings from Tibor.
>
>Gawain wrote:
>  I think what might be very interesting to try would be an Interkingdom
>  Potlatch.  For those of you unfamiliar with the term Potlatch, it is a
>  practice developed by the Kwakutel (sp? Northwest Coast) Indians.  They
>  would get together and build a large fire and you gained prestige by
>  being the one to burn up / destroy the most valuable goods.  There's a
>  lot more to it than this, but I believe you get the idea.
>
>I think you may be confusing a Potlach with a Bonfire of the Vanities?
>
>	Tibor
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