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On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 09:57 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
> Americans think of Merlin as a magician and Bertrand Russel as
> a philosopher and see no connection between the two. It would
> be like confusing a chemist with an alchemist or an astronomer
> with an astrologer.
And quite rightly, too.
;-)
- Wade
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