On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
michael said:
I guess you have a different way of interpreting what bowerbird says.
i think you're getting some of the references mixed up. but it would be too complicated to explain.
Certainly an easy way out.
I keep encouraging him to encourage others, rather than to discourage
encouragement is in the eye of the beholder...
Perhaps then it's time to change your aim.
and that this is more likely to get him what he says he wants.
once again, this is not a matter of "what i want". to continue to operate under that erroneous assumption is to be misguided...
You certainly make no effort to hide what you want, but rather to hide that it is you who want it.
when i want a consistent e-library, i will rework your e-texts.
"Take things into your own hands."
it's no big deal. in my spare time, i can probably do it in a year. no big deal. if you gave me a dozen volunteers, it'd be a month.
That's what I've been suggesting all along. That you put up a dozen examples every so often to generate publicity, which we would gladly mention in the Newsletter [save this message!], and then your dozen volunteers should show up in response, should they like what they see. "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so, too." Voltaire
(yes, i say that jokingly, since i know you don't "give" volunteers; they don't take your orders; _they_ decide what they want to do.)
However, my response is NOT in jest, we will be only to happy to help, as with all such suggested projects.
Personally, I worry that he might prefer to proven right by history, rather than by carrying his own plans to fruition
when i am proven right by history, others will carry my plans to fruition.
Perhaps, if you do more in the way of encouragements, you will see your plans come to fruition much sooner.
or, as is more likely, when others stumble upon the same truths that i have stumbled upon, and such truths prove to be the generative force for the "plans" of those people in the future, _then_ _they_ will make _their_ plans come to fruition...
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on." Winston Churchill
and i'll be as much of a footnote in those plans as ian feldman, if either of us is included at all...
The novelist???
you can't stop an idea whose time has come.
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