[lit-ideas] Re: Dance and other cards

  • From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:48:08 -0500

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
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  ----- 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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