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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Joshua Allen wrote: > > > different Torquemada. yours was real, this was in a comic > > Are we talking about the Torquemada who organized the > torture and burning at stake of anyone who strayed in the > slightest bit from the liturgical dogma of the Catholic > specifications? Especially those people who claimed to > follow the dogma but had previous religions that might > taint their adherence to the new specs? I was, yes, but only in the mood of irony, irony, y'all get it now? (seizing a printout of XML Schemas and soundly beating everyone in sight with it). Technically, the Spanish Inquisition never burned anybody; the secular Spanish government did that at the Inquisition's recommendation. No moral difference, of course. -- John Cowan cowan@c... C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
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