Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:58 AM 10/26/01 -0400, Dan Post wrote: >I was just curious. I have always been fascinated with the idea of sitting >and talking to someone who had revolutionary ideas. I will always regret >that I never had the chance to see Albert Einstein at the donut shop he >frequented in Princeton, and over a cruller and a cup of coffee, talk to him >as one person to another. Or I would have loved to sit talking to Albert >Camus over a fine Bourdeaux, not about philosophy, but things in general. >Have you ever wondered what it might have been like to sit over a schnapps >with Oskar Barnack, or Ernst Leitz some Sunday safternoon- while the rest of >the world looked or listened to a football game, and just 'chew the fat' >with them about what they thought about photography, or even life in >general? Well, not QUITE as good, but I do know folks who knew Barnack and Kuppenbender and Merte and Sauer and Berek and Bertele -- fascinating tales they tell! Most of these folks were "revolutionary thinkers", just guys who could move a bit outside the box to get a new perspective. (On a similar thread, I know a fellow in Annapolis, Maryland, who "shook the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand of John Paul Jones" -- but that is a tale for a different day.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html