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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15161)	6/20/2002 11:01:48 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Laz, that is not content-free. It's a summary, because as I said, I've had this conversation sooo many times on SI I can't do it again. ESPECIALLY because my hubby just suggested we go into the city for the weekend ! -- and I said yes, so have to get a few things together, shampoo my hair, send some emails, and get some sleep. See you late Sunday or Monday, and haha the dp discussion will be over when I get back haha. We're going to the Met to see the Thomas Eakins show and the photography, and we're going to see this wonderful thing, how much fun will that be? And the weather will be good: A Postmodernist Of the 1600's Is Back in Fashion By SARAH BOXER (NYT) 1551 words Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 7, Column 5 LEAD PARAGRAPH - A puckish question was raised on Thursday night at New York University: ''Was Athanasius Kircher the coolest guy ever, or what?'' For those who have no idea who Kircher was, let's begin with the ''or what.'' The German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-80), a rough contemporary of Descartes and Galileo, was no ordinary man. He studied Egyptian hieroglyphs and helped Bernini with his fountain in the Piazza Navona. He made vomiting machines and eavesdropping statues. He transcribed bird song and wrote a book about musicology (still used today). He taught Nicolas Poussin perspective and made a chamber of mirrors to drive cats crazy. He invented the first slide projector and had himself lowered into the mouth of Mount Vesuvius just as it was supposed to erupt. He proved the impossibility of the Tower of Babel and made a model of how the animals were arranged in Noah's Ark. And he collected the objects that filled the Museo Kircheriano, Rome's first wunderkammer or collection of curiosities.... [excerpt] query.nytimes.com

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15161)	6/21/2002 11:57:23 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

More content-free text. Are you in league with Solon? :-) Actually, I can' t think of a poster who posts more content, and relevant, interesting content than Solon, now that you mention it. Speaking of interesting, the NYT and the NYer gave a British comedy transplanted to NY,Noises Off, absolute rave reviews. N and I walked out this evening at the intermission. Had more fun walking back 'home' from 47th and 8th to 70th and Columbus than we would have had watching more of that third rate TV sit-com unfunniness. (It's a soft, warm night.) We were wondering if the acting had been better might there have been a laugh or two in the first half. The audience was not in a state of hilarity, either. I"d call it low to medium laughter. Odd experience. As we left, the guy in the lobby, he was selling drinks or something, said, "Had enough, eh?" N said, "Yes, it's bad. Have you seen it?" he said, "Too many times." I said, "It's a dumb TV sitcom. Did you laugh?" He said, rolling his eyes and whispering, "You'll do better downtown. Try the Janice Joplin or Blue Man Group Tubes...." I'd tell you how much the tickets cost but it would shock Steven too much. They would have paid a couple of months rent where he's going. The Brit production must have been better done.