It comes from using that damn Paige typesetting machine!! Maybe Kevin will consider replacing it, for posting purposes, anyway. 

Ben 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Reineccius" <[log in to unmask]> 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 8:18:49 AM 
Subject: Re: MORE LEGIBLE VERSION? --FIRES, TWAIN AND TOM IN SAN FRANCISCO + ZOMBIES EAT SANTA 

Get the list owner to switch services, seems the only solution. It's an age= 
-old problem that I never have on Yahoo or Google groups, only Twain.=0A=0A= 
I can send it as attachment to anyone who asks me directly at <richard_rein= 
[log in to unmask]>=0A=0A=0A=0A--- On Thu, 12/6/12, Wolfgang Hochbruck <wolfg= 
[log in to unmask]> wrote:=0A=0A> From: Wolfgang Hochb= 
ruck <[log in to unmask]>=0A> Subject: Re: FIRES,= 
TWAIN AND TOM IN SAN FRANCISCO + ZOMBIES EAT SANTA=0A> To: [log in to unmask] 
A=0A> Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 8:08 PM=0A> uuuh .... is there a po= 
ssibility to=0A> get the below in more=0A> legible format? Sorry for being = 
a bother ...=0A> =0A> Wolfgang =0A> =0A> (active member, Denzlingen VFD, an= 
d still gloating over the=0A> idea of Tom Sawyer, fireman ...)=0A> =0A> =0A= 
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:31:37 -0800=0A>=A0 Richard Reineccius <richard_rein= 
[log in to unmask]>=0A> wrote:=0A> > A favorite librarian in San Francisco al= 
erted me to=0A> this=0A> > book, just after m=3D=0A> > idnight, and sent th= 
is column from the Rupert Murdoch=0A> Bay=0A> > Area flagship dai=3D=0A> > = 
ly - San Jose Mercury-News. The other books may=0A> interest=0A> > some of = 
you.=3D0A(fo=3D=0A> > r the graphics, log MERCURYNEWS.COM)=3D0AOf course, t= 
he=0A> > other Tom Sawyer & Tw=3D=0A> > ain story was that a drinking buddy= 
in North Beach=0A> &=0A> > Downtown SF had the na=3D=0A> > me Tom Sawyer. = 
That one later opened a small wine &=0A> more=0A> > store called "The =3D= 
=0A> > Original Tom Sawyer Spirits Shop"=3D0A=3D0A-Richard R, in=0A> San=0A= 
> > Francisco. =3DA0=3DA0=3D=0A> > =3DA0 =3D0A*****************************= 
=3D0A=3D0AESPECIALLY=0A> FOR=0A> > SF BAY AREA TWAIN =3D=0A> > FANS:=3D0A= 
=3D0ABooks=3DA0- San Jose Mercury-News=3DA0=3DA0=0A> > =3D0AGeorgia Rowe: W= 
here Mar=3D=0A> > k Twain met Tom Sawyer=3D0A=3D0ABy Georgia Rowe=3DA0=0A> = 
> Correspondent=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0mercur=3D=0A> > ynews.com=3DA0 Posted: 12/06/= 
2012 12:00:00 AM=0A> > PST=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A=3D=0A>= 
> =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Click to=0A> enlarge=3DA= 
0=3DA0=3DA0=0A> > =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0=3D=0A> >=A0 =3D0A=3DA0=3D= 
A0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Cover of "Black=0A> Fire:=0A> > The= 
True Story of t=3D=0A> > he Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious... (= 
=0A> Crown=0A> > )=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3D=0A> > =3DA0=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0= 
=3DA0 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Tom Sawyer and=0A> > Mark Twain = 
meet in S=3D=0A> > an Francisco in "Black Fire," Robert Graysmith's=0A> > f= 
ascinating account of tha=3D=0A> > t city in the 19th century. =3D0A=3D0AOt= 
her highlights=0A> among=0A> > this month's new r=3D=0A> > eleases by Bay A= 
rea authors=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 include fiction,=0A> > poetry, a study of lo=3D= 
=0A> > ve from the French point of view and a book of images=0A> now=0A> > = 
in a time capsule=3D=0A> >=A0 orbiting the Earth.=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 = 
"Black Fire:=0A> The True=0A> > Story of the Orig=3D=0A> > inal Tom Sawyer = 
-- and of the Mysterious Fires That=0A> > Baptized Gold Rush-Era =3D=0A> > = 
San Francisco" by Robert=3D0AGraysmith (Crown, $26, 288=0A> > pages). Befor= 
e Tom Sa=3D=0A> > wyer was a fictional hero, he was a real-life one --=0A> = 
an=0A> > 18-year-old "torch =3D=0A> > boy" who raced ahead of San Francisco= 
's volunteer fire=0A> > brigade, carrying to=3D=0A> > rches to light the wa= 
y. This intriguing history by Bay=0A> > Area journalist and =3D=0A> > autho= 
r Graysmith ("Zodiac") documents the fires, set by=0A> a=0A> > mysterious a= 
rsoni=3D=0A> > st known as "The=3D0ALightkeeper," which burned in the=0A> c= 
ity=0A> > six times between=3D=0A> >=A0 1849 =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 and '51. A dec= 
ade later, Mark=0A> Twain --=0A> > then a reporter for =3D=0A> > the city's= 
Morning Daily Call -- met Sawyer in a San=0A> > Francisco steam bath. =3D= 
=0A> > Graysmith, whose drawings illustrate the book, links=0A> the=0A> > p= 
eople, places and=3D=0A> >=A0 events that led Twain to write his first=0A> = 
> book.=3D0A=3D0AOTHER BOOKS NEW BY THE=3D=0A> >=A0 SAN FRANCISCO BAY=3DA0= 
=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 "The=0A> Last=0A> > Pictures" by Trevor Pag= 
l=3D=0A> > en (University of California =3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Press, $27.95,=0A> = 
208=0A> > pages). Every art=3D=0A> > ist hopes to create works that =3DA0= 
=3DA0=3DA0 will endure,=0A> but=0A> > UC Berkeley's Pag=3D=0A> > len aimed = 
high with "The Last Pictures." The=0A> > artist/scholar compiled a coll=3D= 
=0A> > ection of 100 black-and-white photos that were etched=0A> on=0A> > a= 
disc and sent in=3D=0A> > to orbit aboard the EchoStar XVI satellite last = 
month.=0A> > Expected to circle t=3D=0A> > he Earth for 4.5 billion years, = 
the images in this=0A> unique=0A> > time capsule refl=3D=0A> > ect art, nat= 
ure, technology, political movements and=0A> > views of space from Ea=3D=0A= 
> > rth.=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 "How the French Invented= 
=0A> > Love: Nine Hundred Y=3D=0A> > ears of Passion and Romance" by Marily= 
n Yalom (Harper=0A> > Perennial, $15.99, 41=3D=0A> > 6 pages). Do the Frenc= 
h understand love better than=0A> the=0A> > rest of us? Yalom, =3D=0A> > a = 
professor of=3D0AFrench and senior scholar at=0A> Stanford's=0A> > Clayman = 
Institute =3D=0A> > for Gender Research, suggests that they do. Exploring= 
=0A> key=0A> > events in literat=3D=0A> > ure, philosophy, art and drama, s= 
he traces the history=0A> of=0A> > l'amour from 12th=3D=0A> > -century cour= 
tly love to contemporary films by Claude=0A> > Lelouch. In chapters =3D=0A>= 
> on Moli=3DE8re, George Sand and Alfred de Musset, Simone=0A> de=0A> > Be= 
auvoir and Jean=3D=0A> > -Paul Sartre, Yalom makes her case with considerab= 
le=0A> > insight.=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D=0A> > =3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 "The B= 
ird that Swallowed its Cage: The=0A> > Selected Writings of Cu=3D=0A> > rzi= 
o Malaparte" adapted and translated by Walter Murch=0A> > (Counterpoint, $2= 
4, =3D=0A> > 144 pages). Murch, a Marin-based film editor and sound=0A> > d= 
esigner who=3DA0=3DA0=3D=0A> > =3DA0 earned Academy Awards for his work on = 
"Apocalypse=0A> > Now"=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 and "Th=3D=0A> > e English Patient," = 
makes his mark as a translator in=0A> > this volume of short =3D=0A> > work= 
s by Italian author Curzio Malaparte.=3D0AAs a=0A> > journalist, Malaparte = 
wrot=3D=0A> > e from the front lines of World War II; poet Robert=0A> Hass= 
=0A> > has called him "on=3D=0A> > e of the most startling and unexpected c= 
hroniclers of=0A> the=0A> > violence of the 2=3D=0A> > 0th century," adding= 
that Murch's translations are=0A> > "tone-perfect."=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3D=0A> = 
> =3DA0 =3D0A"Nearly Nowhere" by Summer Brenner (PM Press,=0A> > $15.95, 17= 
3 pages). Ge=3D=0A> > orgia-born, Bay Area-based Brenner, whose earlier=0A>= 
books=0A> > include the noir th=3D=0A> > riller "I-5," returns with this r= 
elentlessly paced=0A> novel,=0A> > whichopens in New=3D=0A> >=A0 Mexico. Ka= 
te, an artist, and her teenage=0A> daughter, Ruby,=0A> > are just scraping= 
=3D=0A> >=A0 by, when the arrival of a troubled drifter turns=0A> their=0A>= 
> lives upside down. =3D=0A> > Robbery and murder lead to the wilds of Ida= 
ho, with=0A> the=0A> > final showdown invo=3D=0A> > lving a gang of Neo-Naz= 
i survivalists. "Nearly=0A> Nowhere"=0A> > exerts a powerful g=3D=0A> > rip= 
right to the end.=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A"I Saw Zombies=0A> > Eating San= 
ta Claus: A B=3D=0A> > reathers Christmas Carol" by S.G. Browne (Gallery=0A= 
> Books,=0A> > $14.99, 199 pages)=3D=0A> > . Andy Warner's been held captiv= 
e for a year in a=0A> zombie=0A> > research facility =3D=0A> > in Portland,= 
Ore. Disguised as Santa, he breaks free=0A> --=0A> > and thus begins the= 
=3D=0A> >=A0 newest chapter in the satirical "Breathers" saga=0A> by San=0A= 
> > Francisco's Browne=3D=0A> > . Hilarious, horrifying and just in time fo= 
r the=0A> > holidays, it's a must for =3D=0A> > anyone who can't get enough= 
of the=0A> > undead.=3D0A=3D0ASHOWTIME:=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0A=3DA0=3D=0A> >= 
=3DA0=3DA0 michael, michael, michael:=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Mrs.=0A> > Dallo= 
way's presents "Thr=3D=0A> > ee Michaels," with Michael=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0= 
Chabon, Michael=0A> > Pollan and Michael L=3D=0A> > ewis, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.= 
m., in=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 Berkeley's=0A> Roda=0A> > Theatre, www.mrsda=3D= 
=0A> > lloways.com,=3D0A=3DA0=3DA0=3DA0 =3D0AThe Top Ten: 2012 was a=0A> gr= 
eat=0A> > year for Bay Area=3D=0A> >=A0 authors. Here are 10 of the year's = 
finest, still=0A> > available at your local b=3D=0A> > ookseller: "Telegrap= 
h Avenue" by Michael Chabon; "A=0A> > Hologram for the King" =3D=0A> > by D= 
ave Eggers; "Some Assembly Required" by Anne=0A> Lamott=0A> > (with Sam Lam= 
ott); =3D=0A> > "Monstress" by Lysley Tenorio; "The Great Animal=0A> > Orch= 
estra" by Bernie Kraus=3D=0A> > e; "Equal of the Sun"=3D0Aby Anita Amirrezv= 
ani; "What=0A> Light=0A> > Can Do" by Robert=3D=0A> >=A0 Hass; "I'm Your Ma= 
n" by Sylvie Simmons;=0A> "Subversives" by=0A> > Seth Rosenfeld; a=3D=0A> >= 
nd "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil=0A> > Young.=3D0A=3D0A-0-=3D0A=3D0A=3D0A= 
=3D0A=3D0A=0A> =0A> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck=0A> Dept. of English=0A> A= 
lbert Ludwigs University Freiburg=0A> Rempart St. 15=0A> D-79098 Freiburg= 
=0A> Germany=0A>=0A