Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]alec@ibm.net wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:25:06 -0500, you wrote: > > > From: Oddmund Garvik <garvik@i-t.fr> > > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 01:44:42 -0800 > > > > > Americans usually get offended when people tell it like it is. And shooting > > > the messenger doesn't change the reality. > > > >[...] > > > >But now that you have so obligingly characterized all Americans, I > >think my point has been sufficiently well demonstrated. > > > > Didn't he said USUALLY ? > As T.S.Eliot put it, *humankind cannot bear very much reality*, and > with Americans that goes double. > > Alec. If Americans can't bear much reality, why would they invent and champion the Internet as a tool to facilitate freedom of speech and exchange of information and ideas---even if its drivel like American bashing? If you guys want to start an Anti-American mailing list GREAT, go do it. But THIS list is about Leicas. Please keep on topic---the farther we get away from Leicas, the more this list self destructs. Stephen Gandy