Down and Personal

[davemarc]

At 05:08 PM 7/10/96 -0700, grip wrote:
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>grip is also known amongst the non-cyber world as Lawrence "Larry" Bryan. 
>He teaches mathematics at San Jose City College. Larry reads a lot of 
>different things, from space time physics (he's struggling through a book 
>by Penrose and Hawkings at the moment) through modern history, ("The Dark 
>Sun", a history of the development of the H bomb), to various literary 
>master (and not so master) pieces. He just started a translation of 
>Celine's "Death on the Installment Plan" where on page 20 he has just 
>read, "For fifteen years now they've seen me struggling along out here in 
>the Zone; the dregs of the dregs take liberties with me, show me every 
>sign of contempt." Yes, zone was capitalized in the book. hmmmmm.
>
Ah, *Death on the Installment Plan*.  Helluva book.

davemarc