Oh my yes good x-mas presents for sure... 'specially the speedos. Wow. Way cool. But can you carry that big ol' book around in your pocket? I bet not... and I'm sorry but something tells me you're not going to impress the chicks with what's in it either... maybe put them to sleep though.
All I got was a big bottle of booze... and I don't drink. Oh well. T'is the thought... On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > Gold Lame Speedo and the Basic Writings of Josiah Royce > > That's pronounced "lam-ay", not "lame". But either pronunciation would > apply I guess, if it's your intent to convey the inner meaning, I mean. > > I will probably not grace you with the sight of me in my speedo, but I will > inflict my volume of Royce upon you. I feel especially inspired this morn > by my dialogue with Ham and Marsha's posted poem. Both made a deep imprint > upon two different aspects of my thought. Little moments of grace, > inflicted by others when you need them the most- that's what community is > all about. > > > "When I review this whole process, I strongly feel that my deepest motives > and problems have centered about the idea of the Community, although this > idea has only come gradually to my clear consciousness. This was what I was > intensely feeling, in the days when my sisters and I looked across the > Sacramento Valley, and wondered about the great world beyond our mountains. > This was what I failed to understand when my mates taught me those > instructive lessons in San Francisco. This was that which i tried to > understand when I went to Germany. I have been unpractical,-- always > socially ineffective as regards genuine "team play," ignorant of politics, > an ineffective member of committees, and a poor helper of concrete social > enterprises. Meanwhile I have always been, as in my childhood, a good deal > of a nonconformist, and disposed to a certain rebellion. So much of the > spirit that opposes the community I have and have always had in me, simply, > elementally, deeply. > > Over against this natural ineffectiveness in serving the community, and over > against this rebellion, there has always stood the interest which has taught > me what I nowadays try to express by teaching that we are saved through the > community." > > Professor Royce, > > Walton Hotel, Philadelphia > December 29, 1915 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
