22.12.09
Anonymity? note to James
More from James:
Thanks for the clarification. In this situation it means a lot to be clear about one’s intentions.
As to SK I was left wondering myself, and thought it some TV charade???
As to New York and a meeting: thanks a lot for the gesture, but I am not there but on Long Island fending off a snow storm’s aftermath.
I think you should keep in touch on an occasional basis: it is important to keep the challenge to the Darwinian paradigm from being hounded or ignored out of existence.
As to anonymity: sometimes, if your disguise has been penetrated (as I think it has) it can help to step out into public view, as a different kind of self-defense.
Will contact
James said,
21.12.09 at 9:11 pm ·
I never said I was departing forever, only that I probably wouldn’t post for a long time. I never thought of myself as being more than a casual reader and it has gotten to the point where I am just talking in circles. As I’ve said before, I think you’re doing a good job and I don’t think it is any exaggeration to say that you’re probably the smartest person I’ve conversed with on the Internet or in real life. You never really needed any contribution from me.
By the way, I am in NYC for awhile, and while I’m extremely apprehensive about giving up my Internet anonymity to anyone, I may be willing to meet up if you’re willing to meet up. You may have your own reservations here so I merely mention it as a possibility.P.S. SK is definitely a woman. Last year, I was staying a few blocks away from her store in LA, so I thought I woulddrop in. I never told her who I am. I was only there for a few minutes and, of course, the brief encounter doesn’t give me the right to say this definitively, but she seemed fine.
mybrainisafleamarket said,
02.01.10 at 7:26 pm
Happy new year, gang.
Ive been having a return of insomnia, so am taking a break. But my omnivorous reading continues. Anytime I find anything relevant to this section
of Darwiniana, I’ll be glad to alert nemo.
I would never have dreamt that the Garrard book on the Fitzgerald translation of the Rubaiyat would produce so much information. And thanks
to Nemo having scanned that material, it is now available on google.
As is the material from Burtons chapter on Tassawuff from Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus…that entire text can be found on Google books.
PS If anyone ever finds an old bookstore with cheap copies of 1970s issues of Rolling Stone for sale, peruse them and look at the classified ads in back.
The back issues make fantastic gifts and the classifieds tell you what was big in the 1970s. I saw a number of ads for Arica happenings, both in SF and NYC in 1973 issues of Rolling Stone.
Todays version of Rolling Stone is an anemic ghost, compared with its
fiesty first beginnings.
nemo said,
03.01.10 at 7:30 am
Happy New Year, and thanks