Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica & Contax test
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:28:30 -0800

Roger Beamon wrote:
snip
> Cheers!
> 
> --
> Roger
> mailto:roger@beamon.org
> 
>      They that give up essential liberty
>      to purchase a little temporary safety,
>      deserve neither liberty nor safety.
>                  -- Benjamin Franklin
> 
It's interesting you guys/gals with the automatic quotes at the end of
your posts. They shouldn't have anything to do with the rest of your
post, they are automatic and random. There use is to temporarily
distract you from the essence at hand. Where they go wrong is when they
don't... compleatly: they fool you into thinking they are a second
opinion for the matter at hand. What does Benjamin Franklin think about
the Contax G system? Nostradamus he aint! Or wasn't. He might have been
a dabbled knowing him.

So I'm of course thinking that "essential liberties" are somehow a
metaphor for autofocus! "Safety" might represent a die cast body of the
M6. This always happens to me. Its the way my mind works. 
Like when they put a little picture of a little movie star in the top
corner of the newspaper and the big headline isn't supposed to have
anything to do with him/her.
It always does for me.
If Hitler invades Poland I don't want to see a picture of Brad Pitt in
the top corner of the paper. I want to see Adolf! Brad Pitt can't drive
a tank!
Mark :-) Rabiner