Re: Ellen health bulletin
I am not a doctor nor anything medical. That said, my opinion is that you need a second opinion. From a different set of doctors, in a different hospital. Tell them someone else suggested it might be
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Tamar Lindsay
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Re: Ellen health bulletin
Indeed. This is not the first time after a bout in an American hospital emergency room, people have offered to put me in a cab when I was clearly not up to it. I'm sure there is nothing unusual about
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Ellen Moody
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Re: Ellen health bulletin
Glad you are still posting, but sad and concerned for the weakness you feel. It is really the pits to feel insecure when walking. Nancy > >
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Nancy Mayer
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Ellen health bulletin
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ellen Moody <ellen.moody@...> Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 8:05?AM Subject: Ellen health bulletin To: [email protected] Group
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Ellen Moody
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Re: My 2024 AGM report
I'll add that the third day I listened to Prof Keymer's paper. It dazzled by its erudition, but all he could (for that is al there is evidence for) is take tiny details of description which suggest
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Ellen Moody
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P.S. Re: My 2024 AGM report
That other speaker Saturday evening whose name eluded me earlier was Katie Childs, exec dr of Chawton House - not the Bath Austen Museum. Arnie
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Arnie Perlstein
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My 2024 AGM report
DIANA: "Glad to hear the conference was one of the best, Arnie - would you kindly tell a bit more, such as what were some of the "best" things about it?" Hi Diana! Will you be coming to Baltimore next
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Arnie Perlstein
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At JASNA virtual first day
Glad to hear the conference was one of the best, Arnie - would you kindly tell a bit more, such as what were some of the "best" things about it? ?Diana
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dianabirchall
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
As I do not believe Jane Fairfax is pregnant,I took her increased bloom to be because Frank Churchill is nearby. That is before she is treated badly by hm. Nancy
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Nancy Mayer
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Why "vulgar"?
Even more brilliant, Liz Anne - indeed!! With Austen it sometimes is just a single word, that can, like Archimedes's proverbial lever, exert tremendous force on the mind of a sensitive reader like
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Arnie Perlstein
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Why "vulgar"?
??Thank you very much, Liz Anne ¡ª yes, as you know well, I¡¯m approaching the 20th anniversary of my insight that Jane Fairfax says ¡°It must be born(e)¡± near the end of the novel, because
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Arnie Perlstein
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
This is another example of Austen¡¯s ambiguity. What does ¡°there¡± in *¡±There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit."* ¡°There¡± could refer to 1. Jane Fairfax or 2. Highbury. Liz Anne
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Liz Anne Potamianos
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
The word vulgar did not have any meaning of obscenity,it just meant "common" such as the common people- laborers and such. The word still retained the meaning it had when the Vulgate Bible was
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Nancy Mayer
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
Arnie, I interpreted Emma's comment, "There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit.", to mean that Emma thought that no one in Highbury had any elegance, and that few were not vulgar. I also
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Liz Anne Potamianos
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Why "vulgar"?
Enjoy! It was nice chatting with you and our table mates at the banquet - it was well worth the effort of assembling a good. Arnie
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Arnie Perlstein
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
I'm still in Cleveland. Going to the Football Hall of Fame in Canton Monday, then back to Portland Monday evening. <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:
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Stephanie Vardavas
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Why "vulgar"?
Interesting, Stephanie, thanks!! Have you made it back to Pdx yet? I¡¯m about to take off from Sea-Tac to get back to Portland before midnight. Wasn¡¯t it a great AGM?? Arnie
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Arnie Perlstein
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Re: Why "vulgar"?
I have always thought that this was about the vulgarity of presuming to compliment a person's "merit" based strictly on their appearance. <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:
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Stephanie Vardavas
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Why "vulgar"?
[Jane¡¯s] eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy
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Arnie Perlstein
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At JASNA virtual first day
The conference (live) was one of the better ones among the 15 I¡¯ve attended since 2005. Arnie
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Arnie Perlstein
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