From: "Alice Turner" <al@smtp.emailserv.com>
Subject: (urth) CE
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:20:08 

Well, actually, corncrake, I was speaking Buddhistically. Note that I said
"next life," not "next world." Heh heh.

>> The transcription is done entirely by volunteers. If any of you has
access
>> to a university library with the CE (the site helpfully lists locations
for
>> you) and a scanner, you will build up merit in the next life by helping
them
>> out.

>Oh, that's neat.  If you're a Protestant, and believe in justification
>by faith alone, you don't need the merit, and don't get to transcribe
>the Catholic Encyclopedia.

>(Well, maybe GW would appreciate the joke.  I'm sure Borges would.)

-alga


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