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+  From: Vunch@xxxxxxx
+  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:12:04 EDT
In a message dated 6/23/99 12:41:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
c_ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> 'I renounce all my public and private duties. Shame overwhelms me! I cover
> myself with ashes! I didn't know the date of [the invention of] the baby's
> dummy!' [tranlator's note: pacifier for Americans!]' (Le jeu de Michel
> Foucault, Dits et Ecrits vol 3, p.329)
>
Is he trying to say that Americans believe that the be all end all is making
babies?

Vunch

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