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" <nickthomp...@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. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 02, 2017 6:32 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Legado de Nuevo Mexico > > > > Al contrario Steve. A usted gracias! > > > > 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. > > > > As for metaphors, I did say that Norman Crider was like a fish out of > water. But I guess that's a simile. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks too for the plan to pass the book along to your friend. > > > > Frank > > > > Frank Wimberly > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > > > > > On Aug 2, 2017 4:04 PM, "Steven A Smith" <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks for the book, > > - Steve > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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