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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.

I can send it as attachment to anyone who asks me directly at <[log in to unmask]>



--- On Thu, 12/6/12, Wolfgang Hochbruck <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Wolfgang Hochbruck <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: FIRES, TWAIN AND TOM IN SAN FRANCISCO + ZOMBIES EAT SANTA
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 8:08 PM
> uuuh .... is there a possibility to
> get the below in more
> legible format? Sorry for being a bother ...
> 
> Wolfgang 
> 
> (active member, Denzlingen VFD, and still gloating over the
> idea of Tom Sawyer, fireman ...)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:31:37 -0800
>  Richard Reineccius <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > A favorite librarian in San Francisco alerted me to
> this
> > book, just after m=
> > idnight, and sent this column from the Rupert Murdoch
> Bay
> > Area flagship dai=
> > ly - San Jose Mercury-News. The other books may
> interest
> > some of you.=0A(fo=
> > r the graphics, log MERCURYNEWS.COM)=0AOf course, the
> > other Tom Sawyer & Tw=
> > ain story was that a drinking buddy in North Beach
> &
> > Downtown SF had the na=
> > me Tom Sawyer. That one later opened a small wine &
> more
> > store called "The =
> > Original Tom Sawyer Spirits Shop"=0A=0A-Richard R, in
> San
> > Francisco. =A0=A0=
> > =A0 =0A*****************************=0A=0AESPECIALLY
> FOR
> > SF BAY AREA TWAIN =
> > FANS:=0A=0ABooks=A0- San Jose Mercury-News=A0=A0
> > =0AGeorgia Rowe: Where Mar=
> > k Twain met Tom Sawyer=0A=0ABy Georgia Rowe=A0
> > Correspondent=A0=A0=A0mercur=
> > ynews.com=A0 Posted: 12/06/2012 12:00:00 AM
> > PST=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A=
> > =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Click to
> enlarge=A0=A0=A0
> > =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=
> >  =0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Cover of "Black
> Fire:
> > The True Story of t=
> > he Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious... (
> Crown
> > )=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=
> > =A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 Tom Sawyer and
> > Mark Twain meet in S=
> > an Francisco in "Black Fire," Robert Graysmith's
> > fascinating account of tha=
> > t city in the 19th century. =0A=0AOther highlights
> among
> > this month's new r=
> > eleases by Bay Area authors=A0=A0=A0 include fiction,
> > poetry, a study of lo=
> > ve from the French point of view and a book of images
> now
> > in a time capsule=
> >  orbiting the Earth.=0A=0A=A0=A0=A0 "Black Fire:
> The True
> > Story of the Orig=
> > inal Tom Sawyer -- and of the Mysterious Fires That
> > Baptized Gold Rush-Era =
> > San Francisco" by Robert=0AGraysmith (Crown, $26, 288
> > pages). Before Tom Sa=
> > wyer was a fictional hero, he was a real-life one --
> an
> > 18-year-old "torch =
> > boy" who raced ahead of San Francisco's volunteer fire
> > brigade, carrying to=
> > rches to light the way. This intriguing history by Bay
> > Area journalist and =
> > author Graysmith ("Zodiac") documents the fires, set by
> a
> > mysterious arsoni=
> > st known as "The=0ALightkeeper," which burned in the
> city
> > six times between=
> >  1849 =A0=A0=A0 and '51. A decade later, Mark
> Twain --
> > then a reporter for =
> > the city's Morning Daily Call -- met Sawyer in a San
> > Francisco steam bath. =
> > Graysmith, whose drawings illustrate the book, links
> the
> > people, places and=
> >  events that led Twain to write his first
> > book.=0A=0AOTHER BOOKS NEW BY THE=
> >  SAN FRANCISCO BAY=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The
> Last
> > Pictures" by Trevor Pagl=
> > en (University of California =A0=A0=A0 Press, $27.95,
> 208
> > pages). Every art=
> > ist hopes to create works that =A0=A0=A0 will endure,
> but
> > UC Berkeley's Pag=
> > len aimed high with "The Last Pictures." The
> > artist/scholar compiled a coll=
> > ection of 100 black-and-white photos that were etched
> on
> > a disc and sent in=
> > to orbit aboard the EchoStar XVI satellite last month.
> > Expected to circle t=
> > he Earth for 4.5 billion years, the images in this
> unique
> > time capsule refl=
> > ect art, nature, technology, political movements and
> > views of space from Ea=
> > rth.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "How the French Invented
> > Love: Nine Hundred Y=
> > ears of Passion and Romance" by Marilyn Yalom (Harper
> > Perennial, $15.99, 41=
> > 6 pages). Do the French understand love better than
> the
> > rest of us? Yalom, =
> > a professor of=0AFrench and senior scholar at
> Stanford's
> > Clayman Institute =
> > for Gender Research, suggests that they do. Exploring
> key
> > events in literat=
> > ure, philosophy, art and drama, she traces the history
> of
> > l'amour from 12th=
> > -century courtly love to contemporary films by Claude
> > Lelouch. In chapters =
> > on Moli=E8re, George Sand and Alfred de Musset, Simone
> de
> > Beauvoir and Jean=
> > -Paul Sartre, Yalom makes her case with considerable
> > insight.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =
> > =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The
> > Selected Writings of Cu=
> > rzio Malaparte" adapted and translated by Walter Murch
> > (Counterpoint, $24, =
> > 144 pages). Murch, a Marin-based film editor and sound
> > designer who=A0=A0=
> > =A0 earned Academy Awards for his work on "Apocalypse
> > Now"=A0=A0=A0 and "Th=
> > e English Patient," makes his mark as a translator in
> > this volume of short =
> > works by Italian author Curzio Malaparte.=0AAs a
> > journalist, Malaparte wrot=
> > e from the front lines of World War II; poet Robert
> Hass
> > has called him "on=
> > e of the most startling and unexpected chroniclers of
> the
> > violence of the 2=
> > 0th century," adding that Murch's translations are
> > "tone-perfect."=0A=A0=A0=
> > =A0 =0A"Nearly Nowhere" by Summer Brenner (PM Press,
> > $15.95, 173 pages). Ge=
> > orgia-born, Bay Area-based Brenner, whose earlier
> books
> > include the noir th=
> > riller "I-5," returns with this relentlessly paced
> novel,
> > whichopens in New=
> >  Mexico. Kate, an artist, and her teenage
> daughter, Ruby,
> > are just scraping=
> >  by, when the arrival of a troubled drifter turns
> their
> > lives upside down. =
> > Robbery and murder lead to the wilds of Idaho, with
> the
> > final showdown invo=
> > lving a gang of Neo-Nazi survivalists. "Nearly
> Nowhere"
> > exerts a powerful g=
> > rip right to the end.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A"I Saw Zombies
> > Eating Santa Claus: A B=
> > reathers Christmas Carol" by S.G. Browne (Gallery
> Books,
> > $14.99, 199 pages)=
> > . Andy Warner's been held captive for a year in a
> zombie
> > research facility =
> > in Portland, Ore. Disguised as Santa, he breaks free
> --
> > and thus begins the=
> >  newest chapter in the satirical "Breathers" saga
> by San
> > Francisco's Browne=
> > . Hilarious, horrifying and just in time for the
> > holidays, it's a must for =
> > anyone who can't get enough of the
> > undead.=0A=0ASHOWTIME:=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=
> > =A0=A0 michael, michael, michael:=0A=A0=A0=A0 Mrs.
> > Dalloway's presents "Thr=
> > ee Michaels," with Michael=0A=A0=A0=A0 Chabon, Michael
> > Pollan and Michael L=
> > ewis, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., in=0A=A0=A0=A0 Berkeley's
> Roda
> > Theatre, www.mrsda=
> > lloways.com,=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0AThe Top Ten: 2012 was a
> great
> > year for Bay Area=
> >  authors. Here are 10 of the year's finest, still
> > available at your local b=
> > ookseller: "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon; "A
> > Hologram for the King" =
> > by Dave Eggers; "Some Assembly Required" by Anne
> Lamott
> > (with Sam Lamott); =
> > "Monstress" by Lysley Tenorio; "The Great Animal
> > Orchestra" by Bernie Kraus=
> > e; "Equal of the Sun"=0Aby Anita Amirrezvani; "What
> Light
> > Can Do" by Robert=
> >  Hass; "I'm Your Man" by Sylvie Simmons;
> "Subversives" by
> > Seth Rosenfeld; a=
> > nd "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil
> > Young.=0A=0A-0-=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A
> 
> Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
> Dept. of English
> Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
> Rempart St. 15
> D-79098 Freiburg
> Germany
>


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