RoR: Forum

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Monday, July 26, 2004 - 2:33pm

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Mr Elliot,

I would just like to comment on how much I enjoyed your essay. In fact I think it would make a fine basis for expanding on the same theme in a series of 'ghost stories'.

Once again, well done!

Sincerely,

Ision

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Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 11:54am

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This is a superbly written piece of literature.

This is the kind of article which would be read and appreciated by a very wide non-Objectivist, non-libertarian audience. It would move them and cause many, both conservative and liberal, to reexamine their politics.

The eloquence, the skill in language of the quotes from Jefferson are brilliant.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 3:48am

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Philip, thank you.

I've often wondered what Thomas Jefferson would think if he were transported into out time and made the trip from Monticello to Philadelphia in an automobile as he had so often done on horseback.

I think he would have been both amazed and horrified.

Amazed by our technological power, our mobility and our indifference to the exigencies of nature's capriciousness.

And, horrified by the unwarranted abuses of the Constitution and it's Bill of Rights.

I'm sure he would have been able to see, despite our stunning material wealth, the dangers of our present course.

It's a fantasy to imagine that he could see us now, travel back to his age of rebirth and make more explicit the intent of the Founding Fathers.

:-)

Ross Elliot

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 7:20am

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Ross, this is one of the first pieces I read on SOLO, and I was completely captured by it. Thank you for inadvertently delivering such a warm welcome. :)

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 12:55pm

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Wow Jennifer! This is the one of the first pieces you have read on SOLO?

With 1208 posts and 9 articles by yourself - what a good job you have been doing in keeping up appearances :-)

But seriously, very good find and well written story Ross.

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Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 6:54pm

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Thanks, Jennifer. I originally wrote this for an essay competition the subject of which was: "how much freedom should we trade for security". It didn't win. Ah, what do they know, anyway?

Marcus: It's quality, not quantity :-)

Ross

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Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:37am

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You're welcome, Ross.

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Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:49am

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Ross,

It was just a joke. Nevertheless, good job :-)

(Edited by Marcus Bachler on 5/27, 5:58am)

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Friday, May 27, 2005 - 12:44pm

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Ross

I enjoyed this article immensely when I first read it - now that I know the context with which you wrote it, I like it even more. I tried for hours to come up with an idea and a story for that Economist prize, and would have been very proud to have written something anywhere near this good.

I did read the winner's article and this is much, much better.

Very well done.

David

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Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 10:27pm

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Thanks, David.

When I entered the comp with "The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson" I was concerned that the judges wouldn't take it seriously as it wasn't in a form that could be construed as an "essay'.

It was worth a shot anyway. It suited the Free Radical better, which was where it was published a while later.

Ross

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Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 6:01pm

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We certainly need Mister Jefferson now.