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updated wed 2 feb 05

 

Lili Krakowski on tue 1 feb 05


I have several times priced out Fournier's design for an electric kiln, =
which I would love to build. Much more costly than buying one--at least =
in the US



1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue was the height of the Spanish =
Inquisition. the Expulsion, and other fun activities. The notion that =
Columbus was a bad person because he behaved, or allowed his shipmates =
to behave in unpleasant ways is stretching ethics beyond any historical =
frame. Those were times of incredible barbarity; burning at the stake, =
breaking on the wheel, drawing and quartering....To expect Columbus to =
be somehow more than half a millennium ahead of his time---when in our =
own time just such hideous things have gone on----Are still.....

How well I know that moss green vintage glaze. Lead, my dear, full of =
lead....Sorry.



Lili Krakowski

Be of good courage