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>Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 11:16:57 EST
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>Subject: Bullamanka-Pinheads
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>Bullamanka-Pinheads: Not a substitute for Preservation-L -- a different place
>with a different mission. Both lists deserving relationships for the future of
>our past.
>
>ìOh, all right, Mennipus; suppose you leave your independence behind you, and
>your plain-speaking and your indifference, and your high spirits and your
>jests. No one else here has a jest...î (Charon, Hermes, and various shades),
>_Dialogues_, Lucian.
>
>The purpose of Bullamanka-Pinheads is to provide a forum of communication
>between practitioners, craftspersons, and interested others, in the field of
>historic preservation of the built environment, in order to cultivate depth of
>relationships - including laughter, jest, poetry, and play.
>
>ìMennipus, Diogenes advises you, if mortal subjects for laughter begin to
>pall, come down below, and find much richer material; where you are now, there
>is always a dash of uncertainty in it; the question will always intrude, who
>can be quite sure about the hereafter? Here you can have your laugh out in
>security, like me.î (Diogenes and Pollux), _Dialogues_, Lucian.
>
>If the sanctity of the high-order of historic preservation has you looking
>down with too much serious inquiry, afraid of getting flamed by the unknown
>lurker, then you are welcome to engage your best talents of discourse at
>Bullamanka-Pinheads, the historic preservation free range.
>
>BP is NOT a forum exclusive to the professional and actively encourages a
>multi-disciplinary approach to historic conservation as a life enhancing
>philosophy.
>
>ìLaughter has a deep philosophical meaning, it is one of the essential forms
>of the truth concerning the world as a whole, concerning history and man; it
>is a peculiar point of  view relative to the world; the world is seen anew, no
>less (and perhaps more) profoundly  than when seen from the serious
>standpoint. Therefore laughter is just as admissible in great literature
><historic preservation>, posing universal problems, as seriousness. Certain
>aspects of the world are accessible only to laughter.î _Rabelais and His
>World_, Mikhail Bakhtin.
>
>If you take yourself ONLY to be serious then please avoid BP. Otherwise, the
>dogs will bite, the cats will scratch, the mad squirrels will melt your brain,
>and youíll only end with bat guano on your hod. If you take your SERIOUS with
>an ale of hearty laughter and a good story, then join BP.
>
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>Telepathic chickens leave no traces.
>
>][<en Follett
>

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Dan Becker
Executive Director, Raleigh Historic Districts Commission

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