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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:18:36 -0500
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: "Craig O'Donnell" <dadadata@friend.ly.net>
Subject: baidarka Noble Italian Savage Cosmology
>It suddenly occurs to
>me that whatever meagre efforts we make toward 'appreciating' the 'noble
>savage' our real and considerable talents are mainly directed at
Ah, be careful about the "Noble Savage". In the original (French author -
Rousseau? I can't recall) this was a carefully contrived fiction in an
essay aimed at political purposes referring to France at the time.
THAT part of the context didn't survive translation.
Craig O'Donnell
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