In a message dated 1/11/2001 1:44:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Gersil Kay is definitely a woman.  I used to think (and actually stated in
 public) that the architect Fay Jones was a woman. >>


Mah Deah Miss Sullivan,

In my yout', I used to think that cats were female and dogs male.  All of
'em.  And I thought the "stud service" signs in pet shop windows referred to
the cutting off of tails from certain breeds of dogs.

When Paolo Soleri came to lecture at Architecture School, I stood up in an
auditorium full of people (people I knew, yet) and asked him what would
happen in his megastructures if somebody on the top floor (or say on the 60th
floor) had a heart attack while the elevators were on fire service.   Soleri
was neither impressed nor dissuaded.  It just occurs to me that one could
have the same problem in any highrise.

Ralph