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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)?
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>Poster: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>
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>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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