<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Very nice!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 20, 2020, at 1:02 PM, <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Sorry for hastily reading your comment on spiritualism. In the meetings of the Mother Church, there are two or three people of a more or less spiritualist inclination whom I have been trying to understand and draw out their threads. So my comment about the Pragmatic implications of spiritualistic position was honest and I hope not haughty.</span> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>A thing I did not know, and which completely changes the way I now can hear the response. Wonderful!</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></blockquote></div><div>I think that like vaccinations, these kinds of reminders of how incompletely one can hear, and the foundations of both precaution and courtesy in that realization, have to be boosted regularly.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Btw: there was a typo in the last, which I was not going to spam the list to correct. I wrote Percian, and of course the Mac changed it to Piercing, and I didn’t notice until after sending.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My impulse is like yours, to want to somehow produce something. If I were not so goddamned slow and so goddamned obtuse….</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Eric</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>