Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:45 PM -0700 5/7/2000, Rob wrote: >Robert Appleby is 94 years old. One of the many reasons i love the web is the universalising of people's ages. If Rob hadn't posted this, i would have thought he was in his 30's (you know how sometimes you think you know someone's age from the language they use?). Rob, I'm one of the younger one's here--but, if i make it to 94, you can bet i want to be living in Italy with my Leica's! Keep on keeping on! Best of light, Gary - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are, of course, those who would argue that it's unhealthy to read a children's author past the age of, say, 24. Big people are supposed to reserve their enthusiasm for real estate, business plans and zero-sum games played by linguistically-impoverished men with hairy knuckles. This, in my view, is real nonsense. A world in which it's uncool for grownups to care passionately about books -- children's books, any books -- would be infinitely scarier than a world with telepathic avocados or real estate agents from outer space. - ---Paul LaFarge on children's author Daniel Pinkwater OO [_]<| /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------