Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00887)

In message <199701271345.IAA04259@newman.concentric.net>, "Ann E.
Bermingham" <safron@concentric.net> writes
> Maybe you didn't intend to mean it that way, but I
>have heard it before in articles in TSA publications.  "All we have
>to do is sit tight another 100 years and humanity will FINALLY
>catch up to us in consciousness.  So let's just take a chair and have
>another cup of coffee till it happens."

A true story:

Around 1959 in London I got to talking with a London "bag lady" known
around the Charing Cross area as "The Countess."  She was Russian, and
had been in St. Petersburg (later Leningrad, now St. Pete again) during
the days of the revolution.  She had been in a first floor room with two
of the leading communist party intellectuals, who were playing chess (as
they do).  Outside there was mayhem, revolution, batticades, and pitched
battles.  The rifles of the two men were propped against a window sill.

"Why aren't you rushing out to fight with the comrades?" she asked.

"We have to finish our game.  We are intellectuals who will be needed to
guide the people into the new age."  (Or words to that effect).

So the "Countess" picked up one of the rifles and went out into the
street ...

For this she was (later) regarded with extreme disfavor (perhaps for
showing up the men) and fled Russia to seek asylum in England.

Alan
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