> Message text written by Judy Seigel
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> Since many of our distinguished colleagues are *tenured professors* at
> institutions of higher education and/or famous authors or celebrity
> artists, and since the favorite medium on this list to date is apparently
> PLATINUM, it might be a bit of effrontery to call these modes "system D."
> One was tempted to wonder whether the word 'precious' remained unstated in
> Judy's comment.
Terry, as ever, you baffle me. Why should "precious" remain "unstated"?
It isn't clear to me to which of my nouns you wish to attach the adjective
"precious." Professors? I would certainly say outright and boldly that
"tenured professors" are most decidedly precious, an endangered species in
fact, at least around here. DKenn473@aol.com (Sigh.) And celebrated authors, etc., would be
even *more* precious on the alt-photo list, because celebrated authors so
rarely write about things that are really interesting.
Or perhaps you infer an implication of "precious" at my mention of
platinum printing.
Platinum being our most costly "precious" metal, costing when last I
looked in the high two-figures per gram, platinum printers hardly fit the
hand-to-mouth, underground-economy, off-the-grid image I gathered from
Jonathon's explanation to be the sense of "System D."
You have a problem with this? Or maybe you're trying to say something I've
missed?
Judy
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