Thread: zero sum game
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Old 03-14-2012, 07:43 AM   #10
Trilby
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post
You are getting ever more poetic, Brianna.
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Originally Posted by ZenGum View Post
Is this going to become another maths thread?
One can only hope.
I don't mean he believes a zero sum game as in death. I mean he thinks if he wins that I lose and vice versa - that
life is a competition, a fight to the death, that some MUST
be thrown overboard. It is a niggardly way to be.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie


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