Kennedy's Role Model / md3pad the letters / Jessica yearns for peace / PGB

[Michael Bailey]

On 1/17/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From Skip Willman, "The Kennedys, Fleming, and Cuba:
> Bond's Foreign Policy,"

Indeed too bad JFK didn't live a few more years, as in a 2nd term he
could have been influenced by the much more salutary "Man From UNCLE"
- American and Russian camaraderie and a sense of humor

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Toby wrote:
>  They send a letter off to the Royal Society
>expressing their concerns as to the wisdom of trying to go to South
>Africa to witness the Transit of Venus.  They get back an angry letter
>from the Society full of threats.

I was trying to find those letters, haven't succeeded yet but did find
some other interesting background here
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/resources.html

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GR 1,9 "...couldn't it be that way? only excitement, sound and light,
a storm approaching in the summer (to live in a world where that would
be the day's excitement...), only kind thunder?" Penguin Great Books
P55

'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished

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Ghetta Life wrote:
>my orange one.  It's been through a lot as I
>don't "cherish" paperbacks, thinking of them as essentially disposable.  But
>I have to admit a bit of sentimental attachment to this one.

I've owned 4 or five, but never really bonded with any of them before.
 I usually  read to satiation, start feeling unworthy, and then donate
them to a library that doesn't have a copy, or enough copies.  But I
think I'll hang onto this one, maybe even break out the fountain pen
and do some underlining or even notes...