>     There are a bunch in NJ; every now and then the NYT writes a
>     cityscapes-like piece for us yokels who know the alphabet and
>     stuff; I think there are some (concrete houses) in Union, and
>     maybe West Orange.  You could look it up.
>
> I would very much like to find any existing of Edison's concrete houses.
Thnx Ralph,

Alphabets are nice. I am reading 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' the 
autobiographical work by Jean Dominique Bauby. Due to a stroke he was 
paralyzed in all but the lid of his left eye and his neck.  After coming 
out of coma  and working with a 'speech' therapist, though he could not 
speak, he essentially dictated his memoir with the blink of his left 
eye. In French someone would read off the alphabet in order of the most 
common to the least common letters. ESARINTULOMDPCFBVHGJQZYXKW. He did 
not have much else to do with his time but lay about and think through 
what his next sentences or words would be. It is a small format book, 
slim, not too many pages. Good for slow readers. There is a movie coming 
out about him. I wanted to see what the man would say for himself. I am 
at the point where he wakes up to find a brusque ophthalmologist sewing 
shut the lid of his right eye. As I understand he died a few weeks 
before the book was published.

The world is full of a whole lot of curious things that we may never see.

Best,
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