Lili Krakowski on mon 17 jan 05
Lela: Can you wonder that I speak of Redoubtable Snail? I never know =
what awes me more: the vastness of her knowledge, or her generosity with =
it.
Pam:
Tell me please: how cold was the room in which you keep your glazes, =
where you glazed? RR will tell you about expansion, but what I wonder =
is this: if the pots you glazed were very cold, and/or moisture in them =
was icy, I wonder whether there could have been some purely physical =
reaction preventing good adhesion. I DO know that if glazes freeze and =
probably before, they need warming to room temp (hahahaha--I mean above =
50F !!--and THOROUGH SIEVING because they often --what is the =
word?--come apart, dissociate ....
"Be of good courage" is from Deuteronomy. A wonderful friend, a much =
older woman of immense talent and distinction, who was totally =
magnificent to me when I was a girl, used to sign off her letters with =
"Bon courage...." It was only later I discovered that such is the =
French version of "be of good courage' (This was not affectation: =
Madame was Belgian, and we spoke and wroe in French.) Since her death I =
have used her "sign off."
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
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