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At 01:26 27/04/99 +0200, you wrote: >Dear all, dear friends, > >Several years of unsuccessful worldwide academic job-hunt have forced me to >reconsider my plans, and although I am not yet giving up these plans >entirely, I nevertheless have responsibilities and obligations towards my >family, which do not allow me to go on as before. My dear old chap, can't you do what I do? I live by the sweat of my Frau. >The job in Heidelberg will only be temporary, but Heidelberg is one of the >most lovely cities of my country, also close to the place (Schwetzingen) >where as a little child I learned to walk and to speak, whereas Berlin was >always a sort of exile to me where I did not really achieve very much. So >please feel invited to share my good hopes for the future rather than my >regrets of the past. Perhaps then you will concur with the sentiments of Peripateticus Palatinus: Nostrum est interim mentem erigere et totis patriam votis appetere, et ad Ierusalem a Babylonia post longa regredi tandem exsilia. Oriens. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%