thanks! i hope you get to go to Brazil as well - teh UK is really good for
travelling (it both urges you to go & offers some really good deals!)
in best ethos
eugenia : )
On 7/24/06, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Eugenia
>
> >How come i feel challenged but not threatened by you
>
> It's probably my innate niceness
>
> >If you have a theory, please share it.
>
> Nothing over-arching.
>
> >Could ethos be described as "principles and aims/aspirations expressed
> through politics"?
>
> I need to think on that
>
> >Abstraction does not mean denial.
>
> Agreed
>
> > I see no difference at the ethical" Is that true? Farmers have the same
> ethics that bank officers have?
>
> Yes, I believe so
>
> > don't demonise computers
>
> I never would
>
> >Then choose your politics.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> >Would you say marching is habitual for you? No more?
>
> Erm...I have little faith in party politics. I have been elected to
> regional office in unions and found that ... er... dodgy; and concentrated
> on casework
>
> The one thing I can do is to march and - yes - be seen. In the last
> several days I have heard 2 members of the great and good, one of them the
> Archbishop of Canterbury, use the formula "I think we are all agreed
> that..." and marching puts the lie to that
>
> politics and diplomacy are different... I don't like diplomacy, not at
> the level of the state
>
> >hat is "bedraggled"? Dictionary.com said "wet,limp"...?
> That's it. I was bedraggled after I had walked in hot sun and rain through
> the centre of London. I went fell (small mountain) walking recently and was
> bedraggled. I walked from Thessaloniki towards Athens (and kept being
> "saved" by farmers insisting on driving me) and then I was bedraggled. In
> fact, I tend to be bedraggled much of the time. My computer is bedraggled.
> Do you know the children's animation _Bagpuss_?
>
> >nd, alas, i must get to work now once more. It is pretty hot here in
> Athens. In 2 days I'll be in Budapest & in 3 in Warsaw - they tell me it
> might be hotter there though... where are you based & how is teh weather
> there?
> Warsaw can be very hot
>
> I am presently on the southern edge of London. Next week I shall be in
> Penwith - St Ives, near Lands End... and then a few miles from here nursing
> a sick cat while his owners have some respite... I had been hoping to be in
> Brazil in 3 weeks, but don't have the money
>
> Have a good trip
>
> L
>
>
>
>
>
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