>Please help! Mailbase won't answer my calls. Medieval-Religion
>claims they don't know me. I don't know what to do. I have been
>trying to send the following message:
>2 My university has just shifted me onto a different local area
>3 network. My address has thus changed from
>4 [log in to unmask]
>5 to
>6 [log in to unmask]
>7 Messages from Medieval-Religion, to which I have subscribed for some
>8 time, are being forwarded to me, but I am unable to reply: when I
>9 try, a message tells me that there is no one on the list at this
>10 address. I suspect that a slight adjustment is all that is required
>11 and would be most grateful if it could be managed forthwith.
>12 Many thanks.
>
>P.S. Re Columbus and the egg. There is something in this, in that
>it refuses to attribute to Columbus the anachronistic view that the
>world is flat and the equally anachronistic (and, in any case, not
>entirely accurate) view, prior to Copernicus, that the world is
>round. I suspect this is a Victorian bowdlerization. Columbus's own
>words describe the shape of the world as like a woman's breast, with
>the nipple as purgatory. The details of the egg story have all the
>makings of a topos, as it is very close to a story spread, I believe,
>by Vasari, relating to Filippo Brunelleschi getting the job to build
>the dome of the cathedral in Florence.
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
>
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