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From: lester5374@aol.commander (Lester5374)
Subject: Re: Love and Art
Date: 1998/11/17
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     I think that was the best non picture-related post I have ever read in
here.
     congratulations!

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>Subject: Love and Art
>From: mccandless@uthscsa.dcci.com (Roy)
>Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 21:18 EST
>Message-id: <3652cff2.1104212@news2.realtime.net>
>
>Friends and Fellow Lovers of Art,
>
>In 1971, I think when most of you were very young or perhaps unborn, I
>was in college and met a girl and we were together for almost 3 years.
>We were both very young, much too young to recognize love and
>certainly too young to know what to do about it.
>
>We parted company and did not think much of each other for 25 years,
>except sometimes, late at night, alone, I would think of her and feel
>some vague pain in some hidden place of my heart.
>
>In January of this year, I ran across her [on the internet, of
>course].  I was instantly elated and felt rushes of joy which lasted
>for a month or more.  Then, I sank into deep dispair, agony at how
>much we had missed in life, at the impossibility of retrieving that
>which was lost.
>
>In March, I asked your NG to draw me a picture which portrayed a
>certain event in our early time together and BluePard responded with
>some kind of psychic likeness which captured us so exactly, as if he
>knew us.  And I sent it to her so that she might remember some of the
>good things between us.
>
>We talked for many months and, during this time, I collected your art
>to ilustrate parts of our discussion.  To make a long story short,
>today she agreed to be mine and I agreed to be hers, and we have
>agreed to marry [well, not precisely marry - at our age, the paperwork
>no longer matters so much as that which is in our hearts].
>
>I invite you each to congratulate us.  As she has a rather public job,
>I cannot give you her email address but, if you will send me your best
>wishes, I will forward them to her.  Her name is Lena and I am known
>as ...
>
>Rayo
>...........................
>Credits are always appropriate in the arts and particularly in the art
>of love.  We, in particular, understand that love, above all things,
>is an art.  Therefore I give credit to the following:
>
>BluePard - an extroardinary example of psychic portraiture.
>Mathew Thomas - an excellent re-diddle of BP's work.
>Joan Stark (JGS)- Joan, you are the premier ascii artist.
>	Your flowers, kittens, fairies and animals are beyond compare.
>Seal do Mar - great temple
>Brian [The Devil] - Your work made her laugh
>Sarah who hates spiders - who made her giggle
>Miss Kitty - amusing cats, disco dude
>Andy Hood - many, many works
>Andreas Freise
>Colin Douthwaite - I know you did not do the peacock,
>	but thanks for sharing it.
>Shanaka Dias - Taj Mahal, Wile E. Coyote, Elvis
>Lizard - Flamenco dancers
>itz/jgs/ccm - Howling Coyote
>miK - Buddha and trees, buffalo
>Veronica Karlsson - Kliban Cats and much more
>Glory Moo - Chinese Temple
>Igor Katlov
>Ingrid Dekker - cats
>Methos - rose
>Donovan - all kinds of good stuff
>Psst Hooy - castles
>Donovan and others - ying yang
>Mia Kujanhaara - ascii faces
>Hayley J. Wakenshaw - A beautiful rose, cats, Sesame Street,
>Ewa Drabik-Borowska - Drowning Man
>William Kitajo - Thanks for sharing the ascii Macarena.
>	We died laughing.
>Praseodymium59 - nice ship.
>Howard Zivotofsky - Sinking Titanic.
>Jesper B. Nielsen - Spiders.
>Mart Atkins - stars wars collection.
>Rick Kaisner - thanks for sharing Homer.
>Erik Anderson - hot air balloons
>Ojoshiro - fairy
>David Riley - bazooka
>JGS - I know I already thanked you,
>	but I sent your diamond as part of my proposal.
>	We loved your Wallace and Grommet.
>Jorn Barger - Kama Sutra
>S.OVIATT [Susie] - music
>Andy Hood [Flookster] - Kool Kat
>Kimberley Huong Dinh - a stunning rose
>Manuel Castro - Huey, Dewie and Louie
>Phil - Boredom - furniture
>Juergen Jakubowski - Eifel Tower
>rhr - Yoda
>Stanislaw Ciszewski - dancer [we think]
>b'ger - you little deveil
>Paul Steffenhagen - a most extravagent flower
>Martin Atkins - some wonderful flowers
>And manny, many more - we cannot thank you enough.


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