Edouard Bastarache on tue 15 dec 09
Stephani,
do you know anything about the sex of angels?
It was a very long discussion in the Roman
Catholic Church!!!
Gis,
Edouard Bastarache
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Stephani Stephenson on tue 15 dec 09
wheel?
The debate starts sounding like a heated argument about how many angels w=
=3D
ill fit onto=3D20
the head of a pin, and of those angels which ones deserve to be at the ce=
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nter of the=3D20
pin,closest to heaven and which ones must crowd around the periphery,clos=
=3D
est to falling=3D20
off, and thus closer to damnation, if one is a traditionalist.
I have my observations too, and , depending on how the angels are flockin=
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g , i could, and=3D20
probably have , proclaimed with passion , their number and relative posi=
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tion, which was,=3D20
of course, likely to have coincided very closely with my perspective on h=
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ow I live my life=3D20
and work my work. (coincidence? hmmm...)
but, somehow , during the latest round..it has sounded not so much as a=
=3D
symphony of=3D20
or about angels as it has a cacophany of discordant muckers of clay.
Maybe I have seen this one go around too many times.
maybe the soapbox at the Ramshead pub is just booked up for the holiday s=
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eason.
People feel the need to beat their breasts about how their angels' place=
=3D
s at the center of=3D20
the pin are guaranteed.
bon- a- fied,=3D20
but how so and so's must surely lurk at the periphery, because those wing=
=3D
s were possibly=3D20=3D20
earned in a suspect way.
And so it begins. And continues, on and on . i would guess angels live a=
=3D
long time and so=3D20
will the argument regarding angel density and distribution patterns conti=
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nue among the=3D20
human wagerers , lobbyists and crusaders=3D20
By the way, Carolyn mentioned 'tone'. Evidently one of the German root wo=
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rds for clay is=3D20
'Ton'. not Ton as in 'this clay is reeely heavy', but as in Ton, Tone, so=
=3D
mething vibrating=3D20=3D20
which produces a sound..clay.
That's the sound we all hear, regardless of the external tools we employ =
=3D
in the music we=3D20
make with it. (molds, mallets, wheels, extruders, slab rollers, sponges, =
=3D
ribs,....)=3D20
and if there are angels horns, jigs or giggles involved, I prefer to tha=
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nk them and enjoy=3D20
them, no matter how many of them there are or their relative proximity to=
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the ground.
James Freeman on wed 16 dec 09
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Edouard Bastarache <
edouardb@sorel-tracy.qc.ca> wrote:
> Stephani,
>
> do you know anything about the sex of angels?
>
Edouard...
I have never before even thought about the sex of angels, but now that you
bring it up, I am curious. Don't their wings get in the way?
All the best.
...James
James Freeman
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