From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sat Feb 20 08:39:47 1999 X-Digest-Num: 67 Message-ID: <44114.67.310.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:39:47 +0200 From: Robin Turner > > Well, one of my looooong-term projects is a philosophical > novel with three > > characters (all of whom are basically aspects of myself). > One is a philosophy > > lecturer who is having problems expressing her own > philosophy, one's an English > > teacher with a hang-up about modal verbs (c.f. General > Semantics) and one's a > > tantric yogini looking for a culturally neutral mysticism. > They meet up at a course > > in guess which language? I'm not doing any work on it at the > moment, partly because > > I hardly have enough time to keep up with my masses of > e-mail, let alone write a > > novel, and partly because I doubt if anyone outside this list > would want to read it. > > True. But there are dozens of revered books being taught in > colleges that > were received the same way in their days. {zo'o} and still not being read by very many people, even students. I was an adept at going to tutorials and discursing wisely on books I hadn't read. Seriously though, the main problem is time. I'm even feeling guilty sitting here writing e-mails instead of {.ei} translating stuff on ceramics for my wife. co'o mi'e robin.