[5799] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun Feb 26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sun Feb 26 07:15:07 1995
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 07:14:05 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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dryfoo (Gary L. Dryfoos):
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hobbes (Michael M Oh):
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Heading to Summit County, Colorado for a week of skiing. Whee!!!
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keberman (Kevin W Eberman):
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pan (Howard Wei-Hao Pan):
To my sister and her Harvard friends:
"You haven't told me yet," said Lady Nuttal, "where it is your fiance
goes for school."
"He's an MIT student," replied Lamia, with an annoying sense of being
on the defensive.
Lady Nuttal was obviously taken aback. It had not occurred to her that
MIT students entered into normal social relationships. The species, she would
have surmised, was perpetuated in some collateral manner, like mules.
"But Aunt Sara, it's a very good school," said Lamia warmly.
"I don't doubt it," said her aunt, who obviously doubted it very much.
"To express anything important in mere figures is so plainly impossible that
there must be endless scope for well-paid advice on how to do it. But don't you
think that life with an MIT graduate would be rather, shall we say, humdrum?"
Lamia was silent. She felt reluctant to discuss the surprising depth of
emotional possibility which she had discovered below Howard's numerical veneer.
"It's not the figures themselves," she said finally, "it's what you do
with them that matters."
adapted from The Undoing of Lamia Gurdleneck
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