It is entirely to Andrew Zurcher that I owe this
technological breakthrough, and that the list owes this
potential disaster. On his learned head! And many thanks
to 'im. -- For years my father owned and operated an
amateur radio transmitter-receiver he could only receive
from, and this form of communications dyslexia seems to
have become downright hereditary. I am grateful to Andrew
for the cure--perhaps if the model were my father's Morse
Code, instead of Morris' Great Coda, I'd also get better
at brevity. -- Jim N.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:34:39 +0100
andrew zurcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>For those of you who may have missed it, I would just
>like to alert you to
>the fact that Jim Nohrnberg has just *posted to the list
>without
>assistance.* This is the positive, though perhaps
>temporary, result of,
>dare I say victory in, a long and atlantean struggle
>between the forces of
>JISC and those of UVA, a titanic encounter that deserves
>to be
>memorialized in a poem at least as long as The Faerie
>Queene, and as
>soporific as any dance by Morris; which might begin:
>
>I sing of aliases, and the man
> Of many turnings conjugate as true,
> As much of Proteus as ever Pan,
> As deep as Dis, proof as Achilles shoe,
> Like Ceres store eternal, never through;
> Whose name by strange addresses having veiled
> Long time in miller's weeds, and heron's hue,
> Now rives the coiling clouds, wherein it valed,
>And in its right shines past all rein, but not unhailed.
>
>etc. (to ca. 45,000 lines)
>
>az
>
>Andrew Zurcher
>Gonville and Caius College
>Cambridge CB2 1TA
>United Kingdom
>+44 1223 335 427
>
>hast hast post hast for lyfe
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James Nohrnberg
Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
Univ. of Virginia
P.O Box 400121
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
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