[FRIAM] Legado de Nuevo Mexico

[Frank Wimberly]

Thanks for the advice, Nick.  And fir the metaphor.  I think I'll wait for
more data about interest in my story.

Feank

Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918

On Aug 2, 2017 4:50 PM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

> There can always be a second edition.  I wonder what would happen if you
> approached a publisher with what you have already and asked them if they
> would be interested in guiding you to  publishing a longer (and more
> lucrative) second edition.  Publishers (in the old days, anyway) love a
> bird in hand.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank
> Wimberly
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 02, 2017 6:32 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Legado de Nuevo Mexico
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> Al contrario Steve.  A usted gracias!
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> Once I said to Reuben Hersh that I was inhibited about writing to John
> Baez to ask questions about his book on mathematical physics (Gauge Fields,
> Knots and Gravity). Reuben said that authors love to get comments and
> questions about their books. Now I understand.  If you don't receive such
> communications you have a feeling that you have thrown a bottle containing
> a note into the ocean.  Hence my feeling that I am the one who owes you
> thanks.
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> As for metaphors, I did say that Norman Crider was like a fish out of
> water.  But I guess that's a simile.
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> I still do own firearms but I haven't fired them for decades except once
> when I shot a gopher with a .22 short from my study window. Anyone who has
> a garden around here will understand.
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> It's interesting that you would have liked more anecdotes.  I could have
> made the book twice as long but I thought that would make  it boring and I
> was in a hurry for fear of becoming disabled before it was published.
> Irrational, I know.
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> Thanks too for the plan to pass the book along to your friend.
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> Frank
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> Frank Wimberly
> Phone (505) 670-9918
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> On Aug 2, 2017 4:04 PM, "Steven A Smith" <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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> Frank and Congregation -
>
> I finally checked my USPS mail today and discovered that the copy of your
> memoir on your NM legacy had arrived from Amazon.
>
> Uncharacteristically I sat down over a long lunch of Huevos Rancheros
> (Xmas, over easy, extra garnish in place of rice/beans) and quaffed the
> entire book in a single sitting (with about 4 ice-tea chasers).
>
> I gave up looking for metaphors in your very matter-of-fact chronicle.  As
> predicted, the metaphors I did find were precisely the conceptual ones
> which I believe all language is built upon (as per Lakoff/Johnson, et
> al)...  not a bit of figurative language discovered!
>
> I definitely enjoyed the romp through your memory and the eclectic mix of
> your West/East coast life with your earliest/latest years in Nuevomexico
> among communities and relatives of Spanish, Mexican, and Native ancestry.
>   As you know from some of our conversations, I was born/raised among
> communities where Natives and Spanish speakers were significant and
> sometimes dominant.  I do not have my own blood roots in the southwest as
> you do, and being about 15 years your junior, my experiences were a little
> different, but not entirely.  I prowled my rurality with both a spring-BB
> gun and an air rifle but graduated to archery over high-powered rifles in
> my teens, having noticed that I didn't really want to kill animals (or
> people).   I am probably the only member of my grade school who doesn't
> still own/shoot guns for fun.
>
> I appreciated your observation about how multilinguals often reserve one
> language for one mode of interaction vs another.
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> I was so drawn in by your history that I wanted more details and
> anecdotes.  I'm sure the audience is small enough for this book and that
> one chronicling more of your technical education/interests/background would
> have a smaller audience, but I for one wanted to let you know I appreciated
> it.   I saw your sales rank is around 227,000 when I *think* it was 660,000
> when I ordered.   This is something like a divide-by-zero situation I
> suspect?
>
> I will pass your book on to a very good friend of mine who is your
> contemporary (also 1943) born/raised in NM/TX panhandle, visiting Los
> Alamos summers where an uncle worked.   He worked the switch yards on the
> railroads as a college student, had a classmate who "commuted" from school
> to vacations home "out west" by jumping boxcars.   Getting pulled by a big
> Eastern University (MIT) and joining the workforce in the 60's as an
> "analyst" on big mainframes with degrees in math/architecture.    He will
> definitely appreciate a number of your early experiences.
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> Thanks for the book,
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>  - Steve
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