"D. Glenn Arthur Jr." skrev:
>
> Joergen Blomgren wrote:
> > "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." skrev:
> > > Douglas Adams was indirectly responsible for my learning how to
> > > drive a manual-transmission ("stick shift"). Full story
> > > available if people want to hear it.
> >
> > This reminds of one of my favorite passages, I use it all the
> > time to describe a feeling of sudden amazment/failure !
> > I guess you must be partly refering to part of the "fish"-book ?
>
> Actually, I don't think that one had been published yet at
> the time (though I could check). No, it wasn't that he
> _inspired_ me to learn to drive stick, but rather that he
> set in motion one of those fundamental-interconnectedness
> chains of events that resulted in my learning stick.
>
> -- Glenn
[SNIP]
Please, tell us the story, you have made me very curios !
It almost sounds like something out of the books ?
Best regards,
--
J.B Joergen Blomgren e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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