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mark the philosopher
he has been explaining to me that he has made up a catchphrase to describe what it's like when you make a come-back, or pull through to unexpected victory as a dark horse:
"I call it, Last one down the stairs, first one out the door."
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We had this conversation over breakfast:
Mark: Is it racist to call someone pink?
E Wein: No, it's a political slur, not a racial one. It means "a bit red," so with some very liberal or even Communist political political views. Communist countries get called "Red" because their flags are red.
Mark: What's a Communist?
E Wein: A Communist government tries to share out everything so there aren't any rich people or poor people, but it doesn't usually work that way.
Mark: What's a Gossip Communist?
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After I had finished laughing, and explained what a gossip columnist was, Mark added:
"Speaking of Communism, what was the problem with Calvinism?"
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he is 10.
Indeed, musing upon it, I suspect that the term "pink" in whatever context he heard it may have been a SEXUAL slur rather than anything else... And I am pretty sure that whatever he knows about Calvinism he picked up by reading the introduction to one of my Calvin & Hobbes collections.
"I call it, Last one down the stairs, first one out the door."
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We had this conversation over breakfast:
Mark: Is it racist to call someone pink?
E Wein: No, it's a political slur, not a racial one. It means "a bit red," so with some very liberal or even Communist political political views. Communist countries get called "Red" because their flags are red.
Mark: What's a Communist?
E Wein: A Communist government tries to share out everything so there aren't any rich people or poor people, but it doesn't usually work that way.
Mark: What's a Gossip Communist?
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After I had finished laughing, and explained what a gossip columnist was, Mark added:
"Speaking of Communism, what was the problem with Calvinism?"
...
he is 10.
Indeed, musing upon it, I suspect that the term "pink" in whatever context he heard it may have been a SEXUAL slur rather than anything else... And I am pretty sure that whatever he knows about Calvinism he picked up by reading the introduction to one of my Calvin & Hobbes collections.
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*laughs and laughs* I think your 10-year-old son and my 10-year-old son would get along wonderfully, because that's exactly the kind of question my Nick would ask as well.
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My socialist uncle proudly calls himself pink.
Also, Hobbes is really dense. He was hard to get through when I was 21, Mark probably wouldn't like reading it now. But there is a passage in The Leviathan somewhere where he compares the papacy to the Kingdom of Faerie and it is absolutely delightful.
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TAURUS: TODAY YOU WILL FOLLOW A RAINBOW THERE IS NO GOLD BUT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE PRECIOUS AT THE END OF IT, BUT BEWARE, EVERY CRESENT MOON IT WILL GLOW A DARK SHADE OF RED.
AQUARIUS: TODAY YOU WILL SURPASS YOUR ENEMYS WITH ALL THAT IS AROUND YOU, BUT TAKE HEED, IF IT IS A TRUE ENEMY HE WILL TRY TO CHANGE THINGS AROUND….
CAPRICORN: TODAY YOU WILL REALISE THAT A LONG LIFE IS A SERIS OF SMALL EVENTS, ALL BUILDING UP EXPERIENCE FOR WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST.
LEO: AN UNLIT CANDLE FRIGHTENS NO MONKEYS.
GEMINI: HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW.
I think I like Leo's best.
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your daughter rocks.
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Yay for inquisitive minds!
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