From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 05/10/01-12:45:51 AM Z
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ed Stander wrote:
> Judy:
> It's good to hear the new issue will be ready when I send in my
> subscription! But how did you do it? I thought you were in the desert????
> ;o) Cheers, Ed
>
I don't want anyone to think I'm not sensible of the concern for my
whereabouts and I thank all most humbly. Problem is, I couldn't think of
one even reasonably bright thing to say about the desert. So I turned to
Bartlett's (4th edition, 1968, the *golden* classic, don't get the
upgrade) and found:
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...During the long Indian tenure the land remained undefiled save for
scars no deeper than the scratches of cornfield clearings or the farming
canals of the Hohokams on the Arizona desert.
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That's Stewart Lee Udall, b. 1920, "The Quiet Crisis," 1963. And there's
a footnote, a quotation from John F. Kennedy's introduction to the book:
"The race between education and erosion, between wisdom and waste has not
run its course... The nation's battle to preserve the common estate is far
from won... The crisis may be quiet, but it is urgent."
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And now I lay me down to sleep with a promise to do no more offtopic
until after Mother's Day.
Judy
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