ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER

It is said that a boat is a hole in the water into which money is poured. I found the World Wide Web to be a hole in the ether Into which time is poured.

Each source of information that I encountered had links that lured me into totally new territories. It was with little confidence that I decided upon what to choose and when to stop.

Lytton Strachey, in his book “Eminent Victorians”, wrote of the problem in confronting an overwhelming amount of information. The writer “Will row out over that great ocean of material and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity”.

My articles contain little bucketfuls of information that I hope other people will find worthy of their curiosity.

(The cartoons with the initials “RWC” were drawn by Richard W. Cloudt of Carrboro, N.C.)

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