Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Hallo, May!


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  1. Howard Dean is First this fine May Day!

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  2. I always learn things here. Actually, the only burning of the Library at Alexandria I ever heard of was the one by Christians. Didn't realize the Romans took a crack at it or the Muslims finished it off. In all three cases, I suppose knowledge posed a threat to the burners. Some sort of parallel could probably be drawn to the failure of the bond initiative for listener's library, but I can't quite work it out.

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    1. I learned about the three burnings of the Library from reading Paul Levinson's novel "The Plot to Save Socrates," which one of my book discussion groups recently did. Unfortunately I can't recommend the book because it was clearly intended as the first of presumably three volumes but only two chapters of the second volume were ever published. As a result, a lot of what happens in this volume remains unexplained.

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  3. Great news about the newest member of Family*in*Vermont going home!

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  4. Beautiful, sunny, reasonably warm May Day! AND, I saw my first hummer of the year (neighbors reported them two weeks ago). Wish I had some Russian Sage: they adore it!

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  5. Hummingbirds recently sighted here, too; they seem rather late this year.

    --Alan

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