[log in to unmask] wrote:

> In a message dated 2/5/2004 6:24:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>     Besides... is it not the uberArchitect/Contractor who only needs
>     to show
>     that they have a pencil? I mean, not having to use the pencil,
>     just show
>     it [nifty pencils obviously] and collect money and fame. The sign of
>     ultimate success is that you have no office, no vehicle, no phone, no
>     company -- but you have a pencil... a last vestige of trade and
>     hands-on, a very small instrument connected to a vast reality.
>
> *Hmmm. How do I with (minimal) office, no (office) vehicle, no (cell)
> phone, no (incorporated) company, but a shitload of (largely unused,
> but in any case far from nifty) pencils fit into this picture of
> "ultimate success?"  Somehow the picture ]<en paints sounds more like
> ultimate failure.*
> **
> *Ralph*

Oh... yes, and I forgot -- and people send you money for no obvious reason.

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