Thank you for sharing that quote with us, Kris! Anyway, this little poem was posted to another (non-quote-related) mailing list I'm on & I thought this would be the perfect place to share it: ----------------------------------- "Who Hath A Book" Who hath a book has friends at hand And gold and gear at his command And rich estates, if he but look Are held by he who hath a book Who hath a book has but to read And he may be a king indeed His kingdom is his inglenook All this is his, who hath a book ----------------------------------- If anyone knows the author of it, please tell me, all I know is that it was by someone named ----- Naismith. Thanks! Shorah, Kah'tina 2-3-5-7-11-13-17-19-23-29-31-37-41-43-47-53-59-61-67- "Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never." --Franz Kafka in "Parables" 71-73-79-83-89-97-101-103-107-109-113-127-131-137-139 AIM name: Kahtina | Email: kmclemons@hotmail.com -149-151-157-163-167-173-179-181-191-193-197-199-211- My Homepage URL: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~kahtina/ -223-227-229-233-239-241-251-257-263-269-271-277-281- ----Original Message Follows---- From: "K. Kris Hirst" <archaeology.guide@about.com> Reply-To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc Subject: Re: Introduction Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:28:59 -0500 Hey, all: I have this really great quote, that I have absolutely no reason to use on my site, so I'm giving it to you all, as inspiration: "Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts." Octavia Butler, in the essay "Positive Obsession," in _Bloodchild and Other Stories_. 1996, p. 133 Octavia Butler is this wonderful science fiction writer; her essay is about how difficult it is for her, a black woman, to write science fiction amidst criticism that she's 'wasting her talent'. I think the quote is perfect for what I do, and I suspect it fits a lot of us on the Internet. kris .................................................. K. Kris Hirst About.com Archaeology Guide http://archaeology.about.com email: archaeology.guide@about.com .................................................. Quotation Ring Mailing List --------------------------- No attachments, spam or unrelated advertisements, please! To unsubscribe, send mail to <Majordomo@1-host.com> with the command: unsubscribe quotation-ring-l YourEmailAddress in the body of your email message. Quotation Ring URL: http://www.gunnar.cc/webring/quotes.html _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com Quotation Ring Mailing List --------------------------- No attachments, spam or unrelated advertisements, please! To unsubscribe, send mail to <Majordomo@1-host.com> with the command: unsubscribe quotation-ring-l YourEmailAddress in the body of your email message. Quotation Ring URL: http://www.gunnar.cc/webring/quotes.html