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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 10:26:24 PDT
From:         LITERARY <LITERARY@CLOVIS.FELTON.CA.US>
Subject:      Multitracking the Moveable Feast

Reply-to: Tim.Bowden@p0.f509.n216.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Bowden)
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A dear heart has kindly asked that I explain the Nerdnosh
list, and I did so frivolously.  I invite your indulgence
while I make amends.  This is on-topic as regards the
writers I have read here in this very forum, rather than
the long- dead masters.  It is a shameless ad for Nerdnosh
and its potential, and I invite your rebukes (and just
possibly your support) in private mail.


The organism crawls with the impulses of the genre in her
genes, then stands to note the specifics of her singular
nature, then links her own sic transit to that of others
before the curtain.  This briefly is the history of the
universe.

Always there is the fascination with what is consciousness,
where knowing lies, where the `I' is born.  Ever there is
the ascending and the falling away of a discovery in self.

You probably have already guessed my subject is the perfect
electronic brunch.

Nerdnosh began as a group of new friends getting in touch,
like practically every link between members of any species
since before language.  There are many moods, climates,
councils, governments which hold that objective, and the
Nerdnosh List can claim no distinction on that score.


Yet I see a valid and valuable mission for Nerdnosh.

As the individual begins to explore her unique nature and
general similarities, so might a conference perform the
functions of a central electronic nervous system, informing
the many of the existance of the few in turn.

I have read of the experiences of Sybille Bedford on Lake
Chapala, but I suspect there are many more lakes and many
more Sybille Bedfords in this universe.  I want to hear of
them.

And so I am suggesting you contribute to the Nerdnosh List.
You have unique experiences to share which are more precious
than we can find in the travel section of the news, and
there are many of us with a wish to read of them.

We are a worldly group, yet I know nothing of how the sun
rises in New Zealand, or what types of beverage will brace
you for that experience.  I know what they serve and how
they serve it in Julio's on Morelos in Monterrey, NL, but
I also would learn of campfires in Missoula or how the
white sand of Padre Island feels to your bare feet in
winter.

I propose the Nerdnosh List be implemented as its natural
trajectory might suggest - as an international sharing of
the unique, a display of the pearls all of us produce in
our transits.  You show me Yelapa in springtime and I will
sing for you of the dread BoisD'arc when the wind moves
from the north...

C'mon, join the list if you haven't, and share with us when
you have.  You have nothing to lose but your isolation.
And maybe some inhibitions along the way...


-Tim Bowden



       Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
       Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
       Forever and forever when I move.

               -Ulysses; Tennyson





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