Colby Wissel

A speedy guy I met last year, about this time of year, in Roger Mathiesen's office at Kearney High School, in Kearney, Nebraska. He was thinking of applying to Stanford. Looks like he is a Jayhawk, instead.

Some Silver Atrocity

Bits and googlelinks from Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1926-1950, edited by Dan H. Laurence:

"I never grieve," Shaw iterated in letters of condolence, "and I never forget."

Nice thought, nice use of "iterate," and nice quotation from that definition:

  Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared.   

                       --Milton.

Shaw writes to Ernest Thesiger, 24 July 1936:

My Dear Ernest: Let me explain about birthday presents. I am not insensible to the good feeling that prompts them; but I like them to be useful and friendly. Also they should be personal. A presentation into which the subscribers have been blackmailed is abhorrent to me. It results in some silver atrocity that I dont want—that no human being could ever possibly want (except to pawn)—and that I shall never see again. For instance, the Nobel Prize. Eight ounces of solid gold, with a stamp of less merit than a postmark. I havnt the slightest notion where it is; and its possession has never given me a moment's gratification.

moody and sankey (I thought of flanders and swann)*osteitis deformans*university of guelph

Uncertain, TX

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