Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Susan Sontag
From: jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Dec 28 13:49:30 2004
References: <1104265751.41d1c2170b135@webmail.mit.edu>
 
Ernie didn't find them.


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:29:11 -0500, B D Colen <bdcolen@mit.edu> wrote:
> Sorry, Richard - HCB will NOT haunt you. ;-)
> 
> As to Ms. Sontag - "On Photography" is the must. I tell my students that 
> they'll
> hate me for making them read it, but read it they must. I also tell them 
> that
> it reminds me of the old story/joke about the kid who asks for a pony for
> Christmas, and on Christmas morning his parents come down and see him madly
> shoveling away at an enormous pile of horse shit beside the Christmas tree.
> "What are you doing?!" the stunned parents asking the delighted kid?
> 
> "I'm digging," the child replies. "I figure that somewhere in all this 
> horse
> shit, there must be a pony!"
> 
> Indeed, buried in the horse shit of "On Photography," there are a number of
> valuable ponies. :-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
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In reply to: Message from bdcolen at MIT.EDU (B D Colen) ([Leica] Susan Sontag)