ATDDTA 741-444 Tancredi reprise

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Welcome to the club. 

Could you, finally, show me that Masonic hamdshake? 
I've been ever so good.

Probably there's something to the fact that Tancredi is a 
Rossini opera, one of his greatest, that has both a happy 
and sad ending, and is designed for some ultra-butch contralto:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancredi

          I stopped to read this great link from robinlandseadel, 
          which introduces "massa damnata", a good google 
          phrase, and was brought up to speed on Augustine, 
          whom I have mangaged to avoid in otherwise avid 
          religious reading:
           -- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/
           Saint Augustine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Me too, though the phrase "Christian Neoplatonist" kinda sticks out for me.
Spend too much time staring at the cave walls. . . .
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From: Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
I checked my mail often yesterday, expecting
thunderous applause, but met dropjaw silence.