>In a message dated 4/20/2000 8:21:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
> "Conformists die, but heretics live on forever"
>                    -- Elbert Hubbard
>
>
>Dan,
>
>It just occurred to me that your pal Elbert (one of whose letter openers I
>happen to have) was one of the passengers on the Lusitania's most recent,
>one-way voyage.
>
>Perhaps he was speaking philosophically, rather than making a personal
>prediction.

Terrible thing, the Luisitania.  All of Elbert's epigrams were
philosophical, right up until the moment they became prognosticatory.

Please send letter opener.  I will be more than glad to pay COD shipping
charges.  It will look fine on my Limbert desk, and I will use it to open
every one of your emails, so that you may remain in contact with it.


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Dan Becker, Exec. Dir.,                   "What's this?  Fan mail
Raleigh Historic Districts Comm.      from some flounder?"
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