Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/12
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18900/18900-h/images/image_184_1.jpg
--- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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> On 4/12/07 10:01 PM, "Harrison McClary"
> <lists@mcclary.net> typed:
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> > Yeah...I remember many hours spent tooling around
> soybean, wheat and
> > corn fields at the wheel of a Gleaner. That was
> the only Combine my dad
> > would buy for our farm...it had to be a Gleaner.
> >
> >
> Gleaners are supposed to be people.
> There's a famous painting about them.
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> Now a movie which I saw three years ago it went
> three hours.
> Made it turned out by a very old French lady with a
> very small digital video
> camera. Fooled me I thought it was film. You caught
> her reflection in a shop
> winder for a spit second. Made ME jump!
>
> Gleaners have a very special place in European
> culture. The people kind.
>
> And I think maybe they're in the Bible too.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dore_Bible_The_Gleaners.jpg#file
> See what you can Glean from this illustration.
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> Oh here's the Bible quote:
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> Lev. 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land,
> thou shalt not wholly
> reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
> gather the gleanings of
> thy harvest.
> 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither
> shalt thou gather every
> grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the
> poor and stranger: I am
> the LORD your God.
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> I think calling a tracker a Gleaner is kind of a
> weird thing what's the
> matter with those people? Does not cut the mustard.
> BAD tracker company!
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> Mark Rabiner
> 8A/109s
> New York, NY
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> markrabiner.com
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