It can't all be bad though. I searched for "lute" which turned up many "essays", one of which was the novel "A confederancy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, that I hadn't heard about before, but which looks like a fun promising read for the bedside table containing a tiny lute connection.

G.

----- Original Message ----- From: <dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:00 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lutes were the earliest form of guitar developed in the thirteenth century


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, "Mayes, Joseph" <ma...@rowan.edu> said:

   It takes only one of these execrable "essays" to set the pace of
   scholarship back decades. I wonder how many people take this at face
   value?

a few will take the hint from the many 'join now' buttons and see what
wikipedia has to say for free before they open their wallets.


--
Dana Emery



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