"Ken Fortenberry" wrote

It's worth a trip to the library every week if only to look
at the magnificent copies.

well, i'm sure it's preferable to the only other material of value in
the entire freaking place: archived superman comics.

wayno (the library at the university of north carolina was established more
than fifty years before illinois was a state, for god's sake...)

Wayne Harrison wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote
It's worth a trip to the library every week if only to look
at the magnificent copies.

well, i'm sure it's preferable to the only other material of value in
the entire freaking place: archived superman comics.

wayno (the library at the university of north carolina was established more
than fifty years before illinois was a state, for god's sake...)

You really don't want to try to compare the collection
of mule-skinning tutorials and trailer-park maintenance
manuals at Chapel Hill with the library of the University
of Illinois. You'll just end up embarrassing yourself.

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article ,
says...
Wayne Harrison wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote
It's worth a trip to the library every week if only to look
at the magnificent copies.

well, i'm sure it's preferable to the only other material of value in
the entire freaking place: archived superman comics.

wayno (the library at the university of north carolina was established more
than fifty years before illinois was a state, for god's sake...)

You really don't want to try to compare the collection
of mule-skinning tutorials and trailer-park maintenance
manuals at Chapel Hill with the library of the University
of Illinois. You'll just end up embarrassing yourself.

Why? Did they build their library underground so it didn't
shade a corn field? :-)
- Ken

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:19:07 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 6/14/05 12:16 AM, in article ,
"Cyli" wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:57:52 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 6/12/05 10:28 PM, in article ,
"Cyli" wrote:


Thank heavens for modern photocopies, which would let readers like me
see any book they had interest in without doing damage to the
originals.

What?

Puzzled,
Bill

Oh, I meant that they can lock up all the rare books and put out
photocopies into the regular circulation stacks. This will make it
easier to keep the truly rare copies safe, but let someone like me
look at them anyway. Wll, almost look at them. Look at a clone of
them.

It was the term "photocopy" that puzzled me. I had images of strolling up
to the desk at the British Library, asking for the Lindisfarne Gospels and a
pile of 10p coins for the copy machine.

What is done now makes photocopies look like fish wrappers. For example,
after mentioning the Kelmscott (which, while rare, isn't particularly old),
I dug up our copy of this:

http://www.octavo.com/editions/chkwks/index.html

Which, while nice (very nice, actually), won't be the fix a bibliomaniac is
looking for. (And truly is a *photo* copy, I suppose!) For most of us
though, it'll do. And there are of course online collections of digitized
texts, both free text-only collections (eg. Project Gutenberg) and
subscription based text/image collections (eg. EEBO or NCO).

Bill

Yipes. Still too nice for me. Not that I want a smudgy thing on thin
typing paper, but...

Yep. I like Gutenberg. For one thing, they've got Austen (uh, that's
Jane Austen. I don't think she ever flyfished.).

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:07:31 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:16:22 -0500, Cyli
wrote:
(snipped)

Oh...yeah, this didn't head where it probably should have...but here we
are...
Well, it came down to mentioning something only barely less frivolous.

OK, so, it's your position that this company is conspiring to
screw you out of $7 to $20 a month by paying someone 12-13 days a year
to keep you and this money apart...well, you may be familiar with the
old saying about who is soon parted from their money...

No, to keep all the retired people from their money. Make it enough
trouble and most people _will_ let it go. Since most of their help
was on odd hours, much of it was part time and temporary and several
of the hospitals they once ran have closed, there are a lot of people
who won't consider the amount worth the effort. Just finding the
appropriate person took me several emails and a couple of phone calls.

She's nice enough. The organization sucks.

Er, the person in charge is nice enough, but the "organization"
sucks...interesting concept.

She's not in charge. She's the clerical person there. The people in
charge of her are 'the organization.'
I mean really really sucks.

Fair enough - I mean really, really interesting concept...

Worse than HWMNBN sucked. But more clever than he was.

Why? Did he conspire to spend an even more disproportionate amount of
time and money to try to keep a few dollars you claimed were yours, too?

Nope. I don't think he was dishonest financially (verbally, hell yes,
financially, not that I know of). But we all know I thought he
sucked.

Whatever foats your bloat,

I don't know what foating is, but my bloat, unfortunately, takes care
of itself. All too well. Maybe it does foat. If foat is a
variable, it's possible.


Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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