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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1992 14:45:13 EDT Dear Timothy Falconer: I am both amused and bemused by the messages I found today in my e-mailbox with your name attached. . . Since I don't always pick up my e-mail daily (especially since the Big Improvement that now causes that operation to take four or five times the length of time it used to, which was already longer than going through mail in my office mailbox) I was unaware until now that my name had been taken in vain. It's OK, though. I can use all the publicity I can get. I am ashamed to say that I don't recall you from my Utopias course, but when I get to the office on Tuesday I will look up my records from whatever year you were in -- and the paper on Innuexa (sp?) -- which is somewhere among my effects. I have always meant to do a longitudinal analysis of those papers, to see whether there are historical correlates, short- or long-term trends (or whatever) in L.U. students' notions of what would constitute a perfect -- or at least a good -- society. That project will now wait until I retire, which will be pretty soon according to present plans . . . As for Gravity, I am afraid I still don't get the drift of the problem you are addressing. But then, I haven't read all of your missives as yet. Perhaps the light will dawn when I get through the whole collection to date, which I shall print out to ponder at my leisure. Meanwhile, let me add that it is always a pleasure to hear from an old student, especially one who says s/he was somehow influenced by a course s/he took with me. That is one of the great joys -- and surprises -- of the profession of professing. Since those joys do not include getting rich, or (usually) becoming famous, we old profs must savor those we can occasionally hope for. . . cheers, |
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