From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-02-20 11:32:59 +0000, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) said:   
      
   > On 2/19/15 11:34 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:06:12 -0800 (PST), William Vetter   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> And I really did get to the point where, at=   
   >>> least with the sort of crystals I worked with, that I knew what nobody els=   
   >>> e did.  I'm not telling you that I'm special; a lot of people who research   
   =   
   >>> things that haven't been studied before can say that.   
   >>   
   >> I once attended a caver's convention where one of the speakers told   
   >> how shocked he was when he was introduced at a previous engagement as   
   >> the world's foremost expert on Michigan caves.   
   >>   
   >> He was even more shocked when he realized that it was true.   
   >>   
   >   
   > 	Yeah, small fields are like that.   
   >   
   > 	I had a similar reaction the first time I was called a professional SF   
   > author, and again when I was invited to be a Guest of Honor. "What? No,   
   > I'm just a lucky fanboy."   
      
   A young girl of my acquaintance once squealed in response to something   
   I had said offhand, "Oh my God! You actually know John Fricke?!!!" You   
   never know.   
      
   (He's a biographer of Judy Garland.)   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "But now is a new thing which is very old--   
   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
     -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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