[lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards

*am
Sorry, I've had my nose in this German book all day and I'm losing the capacity 
to write English.  This is especially unfortunate because while I'm losing the 
capacity to write English, my capacity to write German isn't improving in the 
least.

Erin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Erin Holder 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:48 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards


  I, on the other hand, and trying to keep Erkenntnis, Ergebnis, and Erlebnis 
straight.  Oh, woe is me.  
  For all intensive purposes.  Ha.  I really like that : )


  Erin
  TO
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Ritchie 
    To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:43 PM
    Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards


    While I have been off witnessing condo races and water twisters in L.A., I
    have apparently missed an important party, one at which I was nominated to
    cook.  Apologies.  I trust that the whisky was Trader Joe's best, that Erin
    let the microbrewed keg settle before it was tapped, and that the two who
    started all this led you in suitably literary dances, an Allemande to begin
    perhaps, followed by the Haymakers, some Jigs and Hornpipes, a minuet, a
    riotous reel?

    My excuse for disturbing the silence is poor.  Having spent the morning
    reading things like, "For all intensive purposes, I will consistently use
    this terminology throughout the paper," I was delighted by the following
    history, "My great-great uncle [identity snipped] was the village
    blacksmith, who was best known for fitting a ring in the nose of a circus
    bear without the use of a tranquilizer.  My great-great grandfather [i.d.
    snipped] was an inventor who sued Thomas Edison for patent infringement
    concerning a magnetic iron ore separator.  In the 1950's William [snip], my
    grandfather, was a programmer on the UNIVAC, the first civilian use
    "computer"... [snip]...  Sharing an interest in all of these things, from
    forging metal to programming computers, I feel that I am part of all that
    came before me."

    There, wouldn't you want to read the rest of the thesis and see the art that
    arises from such an inheritance?  Well done that man.

    David Ritchie
    Portland, Oregon 

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