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Subject: [Leica] End of the Road
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 14:15:24 +0100
References: <CAFfkXxs0y_zraeD=6g3RhzwpdrA6EK4aKQXXNd+DpMeo_QZgHg@mail.gmail.com> <CAH1UNJ0qBfj+7oHia8+4hCRVjCYtuFbFZZjsdjtb9x25p2YMNw@mail.gmail.com> <99A6943E335A4D1B877181570A937D8B@Family> <CAH1UNJ244RDiH4NgGR=H+W-9N7QQHu7g46mMw9m_V3yfktaNdg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Jayanand,
I fully intend to read it in the near future and now must try to source the 
Miller too in my local library too.

Douglas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] End of the Road


>I suggest "The Traveler's Tree" by Patrick Leigh Fermor, it has the most
> vivid and spooky description of Haitian voodoo rituals you will find
> anywhere! One of the very greatest travel books ever written, IMHO the 
> only
> one that runs it close is 'The Colossus of Maroussi" by, of all the 
> people,
> Henry Miller!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>> I have, Jayanand, and yes, it was in my much younger days. Funny that. Is
>> sci-fi a phase we pass through, and move on?
>>
>> Douglas
>> Currently reading "A Time of Gifts" by Patrick Leigh Fermor
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <
>> jayanand at gmail.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 4:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] End of the Road
>>
>>
>>  Spooky sort of place. Our racial memory works overtime when it comes to
>>> our
>>> fear of darkness. How many have read Isaac Asimov's brilliant
>>> psychological
>>> tour de force on darkness, "Nightfall" in their younger days?
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Time to turn back
>>>>
>>>> http://sonc.com/look/?p=4370
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Sonny
>>>> http://sonc.com/look/
>>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>>> 1714
>>>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>>>>
>>>> USA
>>>>
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