Forum Archive Index - January 2004

["David & Jill Stevenson" <djstevo@quicksilver.net.nz>]

Woody,

 

          I have a relative in England ( I hope he doesn`t get to read this ) who, though a nuclear physicist,( no, none of his brains rubbed off on me ) can write up to 10 pages in a letter on the subject of chronometers . I dread getting those letters  that in perfectly crafted and  in his grammatically framed  style tell me , yet again about his particular love .I have not a scientific bone in my body yet continue to get these letters that bore the living daylights out of me . If I was more honest I would write and say get off your pedestal as a boring old pedant . I don`t because somehow I sense his passion coming through those ,dull to me, technical words that seem to mean so much to him . His is an almost childlike love of words that somehow makes me a little more tolerant rather than "cut an angels wings ". 

 

  Were he unkind he would probably say to me  "Never dumb down , David ".So I forebear . Or am I too being pedantic even now Woody.. I love passion in people.

 

                         Regards

 

                                     David Stevenson