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on 8/9/01 7:42 pm, Richard Zvonar at zvonar@zvonar.com wrote: > At 11:08 AM -0700 9/8/01, Mark Sottilaro wrote: >> Is it my imagination, or are their a lot of Italians on the list? > > Could it have anything to do with Giambattista Vico's theory of cyclic > history? It strikes me too, Italian seems to be (numerically) the second-best represented nationality on this list. Might it be a consequence of our passionate looping language, where the sound of words can be legitimately employed to create self-gratifying cycles...? Or Macchiavelli's inheritance of looped diagonal strategies? Or a sequence of 50 years of the same government changing approximately 60 times re-arranging in a different sequence the same people? Or the pleasure of watching the Mediterranean waves looping on the shore? I can think of many reasons, whether any would make sense I'm not sure. As it happens I am Italian too, and been in the loop for quite a few moons. Roberto ______________________________________________ Roberto Battista http://www.robat.scl.net http://www.robat.scl.net/lectures/index.shtm Tel. 0044 020 8449 1995 Mobile 0775 960 4344 ______________________________________________ http://www.rustyrobot.com independent on-line music distribution, the music you can't find elsewhere, hybrid, eclectic, world, looped, unusual... ______________________________________________ http://www.robat.scl.net/html/tibet/tibet.shtm an exciting project on technology applied to mobile education for developing countries and remote locations... ______________________________________________