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California Wines
I fully agree, my good fellow. My experience has confirmed your statement. And further, the discovery of good inexpensive wines is like finding a great suit or fedora for 20 bucks at Goodwill. It's the thrill of the hunt (although with wines you have to wait until you get home to find out what...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Exciting archaeological discoveries....
Absolutely cool shot, Hermann, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE modern mosaics especially on classical themes -- many from the Golden Era. I'll post a few on this thread. There is an absolutely marvelous one on campus, classically themed, I think from the 1930s, just brilliant. There is a weird one...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Exciting archaeological discoveries....
That's very cool, but let me hasten to note that in my profession (ancient history), Achilles is not usually believed to have necessarily been a real person. There have been several shrines to Achilles found in several spots which enjoyed sacrifice, (and, for example, a notable one to Agamemnon...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Do you have a strategy on ebay????
Now now [shakes index finger]. Play nice.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Exciting archaeological discoveries....
My pleasure. Stay tuned for more.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Do you have a strategy on ebay????
Same here. My thoughts too. Exactly.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Exciting archaeological discoveries....
I know many of you like Homer or archaeology or both. This is not "vintage" 1930s/1940s but it's vintage 1200 BC or so and I don't think it's too fluffy to post here (feel free to correct me Hemingway) so here it goes .... From <http://www.charlotte.com/world/story/523098.html>...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
More uniformity. OK, I can see your point.- Dr Doran
- Post #239
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
Hmmm. So were your parents overly and unfairly restrictive when you were young? (Strokes beard, adjusts monocle, makes inscrutable notes in ledger.)- Dr Doran
- Post #236
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What has happened to society?
If you are saying that you do not respect Plato, Cervantes, Mozart and Shakespeare then I am afraid I retract my last compliment to you and I wish to have nothing else to do with you. We all draw boundaries, and that is most firmly where mine is. Persons who do not respect this tradition...- Dr Doran
- Post #142
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What has happened to society?
Tough call. Because of what I have seen, very much like what Joan Didion describes in her short story "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," I am inclined in the opposite direction. But as always, Surely, you do present your opinion intelligently and I, for one, appreciate that.- Dr Doran
- Post #140
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
Well, for the record Kitty, I still like you, still respect you, and still enjoy your posts and think you have interesting things to say. And I mean that.- Dr Doran
- Post #234
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
Yes, that is what I meant, and I apologize to Bella if I sounded offputting. I meant that there are standards that are in place already and that it is generally best to respect those standards and not treat them as arbitrary. Everyone treating them as arbitrary leads to a big ugly mess. Or, as I...- Dr Doran
- Post #233
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What has happened to society?
Lyndon LaRouche, of all people -- a very odd fellow but a genius, and certainly not the monster many paint him as -- noted once that the "counterculture" is only the flipside, not the opposite, of "popular culture." He opposed both of these terms to "Culture" which I would now label "the...- Dr Doran
- Post #138
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
That is not at all what I am saying in any respect whatsoever. I am saying that there are, objectively speaking, outside of subjective opinions of yourself or myself, environments in which certain things are appropriate and certain ones not. While the decisions of whether something is...- Dr Doran
- Post #228
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
This is not America. This is an internet forum that one person created (although, yes, before you say it, one to which many many people contributed). It is not a miscellaneous grab bag of "anything goes" but a constructed environment with, yes, rules.- Dr Doran
- Post #225
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?
Ummm. ... don't try to be a grad student in the university where I teach. At least don't study Classics or history there. It might fly in Women's Studies -- I wouldn't know. As for the smilies, I was being humorous.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What has happened to society?
You meant this attitude? "YOU JUST GOTTA LET IT ALL OUT, LET IT ALL GO. NOBODY CAN TELL ME WHAT TO DO. I'M FREE. I DO WHATEVER I PLEASE." Then perhaps a rock lyric that rhymes "school," "cool," "rules" and "fool" such as I went to school But there were too many rules I ain't a fool Cause...- Dr Doran
- Post #133
- Forum: The Observation Bar
