<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">“And yet the bullet went astray, as the boys, in horror, watched and saw, the policeman rise smiling as she quietly spoke: “you forgot to compute in gravity. You see my head is not as it appears, it lacks the height you gave it, the dead night light waves respond differently when losing their glow, I’m really two inches shorter”. <div>“Then one boy bravely walked to the officer, and shook her hand most gamely, he said aloud so all could hear, “it wasn’t your height I miscalculated, indeed, I loaded my gun with reversing direction. You see I was trying to end my own life, but not let any one know it, but the angle of my trajectory went directly into the ground! So you and I are both alive, though I am not sure what life is anyway, but I definitely need to brush up on my math for I had forgotten about the hypotenuse.” They shook hands and promised to write but they didn’t, and all three left that place quietly, the gun lay in the dirt in the darkness, waiting for better equations.</div><div><br></div><div>Pmmiller<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Oct 31, 2019, at 8:45 AM, HighlandWindsLLC Miller <<a href="mailto:highlandwinds@gmail.com">highlandwinds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">“But in the light of the dead dark night, the two boys asked for a second chance, shooting the policeman in the head, as she laughed uncontrollably at their dusty remains.”<br> ...Peggy m miller. ...happy Halloween!<br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Oct 28, 2019, at 11:06 PM, Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">“<i>… a deaf policeman heard the noise,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">And came to rescue those two dead boys.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Friam [<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steven A Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 28, 2019 5:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jochen,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Old English Text MT ;color:red",serif"> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Old English Text MT ;color:red",serif">“WEAK”!!!!!!!!??????????</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Suh! Pistols at Dawn! </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i>One bright day, in the middle of the night<br>two young boys stood up to fight<br>back to back they faced the other<br>drew their swords and shot one another</i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>