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"Paul K. Dickman" wrote:
It was nearly 30 years ago. I can't recall what edition but they definitely had 18th or early 19th cent bindings. I spent many happy hours in college sitting in the library pouring over them. I never checked them out, they were enormous folios that probably weigh 15 lbs a piece. I didn't want to have to carry them around, and I certainly didn't want to screw one up. The library did have a rare book dept, but they didn't control these. I'm sure that was some sort of oversight that has long since been rectified. Paul K. DIckman Wait, I take that back. A quick check of their card catalog, shows a 1771 Geneva edition in storage and a 1751 Paris edition on the second floor Impressive. Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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Abrasha wrote:
mbstevens wrote: Jack Schmidling wrote: "Abrasha" Personally, I think Dali sucks. ::shrug:: just my humble (and probably in your view, worthless) opinion. He was a magazine illustrator with bad dreams. Surfing on the work of the surrealist writers like Duclasse. Have to say I do like his jewelry a little bit, though. Take a really bad dream and make it sparkly and shiny -- that's at least a little bit interesting. -- mbstevens http://www.mbstevens.com Another opinion showing great insight in the work of Dali. What great intellect. You must be a studied art historian. Magazine illustrator? Where did you get that piece of rubbish information? *Not* intended to imply that he had actually illustrated magazines, but that the work looks like that you would find in a magazine in its *illustrational* technique. He never broke free of this illustrational technique, although here and there he did do an isolated work playing with modernistic ideas. Do you even begin the know the breath of his work? Yes. Lots and lots of paintings that didn't change style in any very significant way over his lifetime. He was always purely the illustrator. Surrealists like Ernst broke away from illustration; Dali never really did. Here is an "abbreviated" biography. http://romaniankids.8k.com/photo.html I have better books on him in my library, thanks. Do you even know his jewelry? Yes. Eyeballs (sometimes as clocks) with pave lids, jeweled tears, elephants with insect legs, other depictions of dream-like imagery like a little heart with a sack of pulsing jewels. Illustrational atoms with diamonds trekking in little orbits around a nucleus. It has nothing or very little to do with dreams. The whole surrealist movement was obsessed with it. In Dali's case, let's add in a heaping helping of religious mysticism, pseudo science, and trash psychoanalysis (Freud thought Dali's thought on psychoanalysis was idiotic, IIRC). Of course, in the trash psychoanalysis we have further evidence of his interest in dreams. Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com -- mbstevens http://www.mbstevens.com |
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Could be too much pressure on the blade. Try a lighter weight if you are
using a weight/pulley system. Will E. "Jafi" wrote in message ... Hello All, I have recently rebuilt a 12" rock saw and I'm having trouble calibrating it for a parallel cut. It seems that as the clamp travels it tends to move away from the blade which causes the blade to bind. I have measured and remeasured and still can't get it aligned. I have realigned the blade shaft, I have realigned the clamp rails and I am getting somewhat frustrated. It is the larger rocks that seem to have trouble staying aligned. I don't put any rock larger than the clamp, (lengthwise) and only about 3 - 4" high. Is there a trick or can someone impart some of their experience and wisdom on this newbie? Your help would be appreciated. Thank you Joe |
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Thanks Mike for an intelligent note of calm in all this very tiresome flack! Kendall Davies "Mike in Arkansas" wrote in message ... Jack Schmidling wrote in message . .. but are too intimidated by the trolls to ask questions. Doubtful. Let's do a survey on that one. Come on lurkers, now's your chance to speak out! Well, since you ask. I'm mostly a lurker that posts infrequently for a couple of reasons. First of all I was educated to look up things for myself(course that was back in the dark ages, maybe they don't teach that anymore). So I read first and only ask questions later which is rarely necessary. The few times I have ask questions, I have been answered by all in a curteous and helpful manner. If I were responded to in a negative way I would likly ignore that reply, thank the others and go on about my business. Time is too short to get into egotistical ****ing contests over inconsequential matters. Reap the wheat and let the chaff lay. Lots and lots of books available online and a cursory reading of any of them would have told what binding wire is. Get Oppi Untracht's books (old but inclusive) and others that have already been recommended. For inspiration I like the newer how to books with the glossy pictures. Also, for inspiration, look at some of the work at www.guild.com. Some good wood examples there too. Mike in Arkansas |
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