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Appraisal apologies



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cox [mailto:rcox@MAIL.SIS.PITT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:31 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: New Yorker

[much snipping here]

"Of course, ANYONE can write about these topics, but that does not mean he
or she has anything useful to offer..."

Amen to that, since most of my own offerings are probably not worth the
screen they are printed on....

But in all seriousness, regardless if it's newspapers or laundry lists, the
most important thing we do in this business is appraisal, and part of that
activity is deciding when a surrogate is going to have to pinch hit for the
geniune article.  Mr. Baker probably understands that as well as the rest of
us when he has to sort through all the snapshots he took of the family at
the lake last summer..."Do I really need this one of Uncle Harry by the
grill?"

You folks ever see any of those television plays about the Trinity project
and J. Robert Oppenheimer?  I dig the line he quotes when the bomb is going
off...something we all ought to mutter when weeding a collection:

...I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.

Kim (gettin Eastern out in the West) Scott

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