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To: Quix
I hear TV's with the sound off. No, not the dialogue . . . a kind of high pitched sound

Even when the set is unplugged?

I had to stop subscribing to the morning paper, as I woke up every morning reading the headlines before the paper was delivered. (In those pre-Net days, I didn't listen to radio or tv either, so had not heard news the night before.) Delivery was a waste of money. But then, I was in the business of the written word, in that stream, acutely attuned.

My dearest friend was a software architect who could pick up a printout from a roomful of printouts, open to a page apparently randomly, and find the gitch that was bolluxing up the works. I could pick up a book or manuscript of any number of pages, open to the page that had the one error. I don't think we were remarkable, just so thoroughly into our jobs that our jobs were into us as well.

Which brings up the subject of mastery. For another day.

321 posted on 01/04/2005 12:35:13 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

Cute.

No. Not with the sets off or unplugged.


326 posted on 01/04/2005 12:44:47 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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