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Your Quotes for 2 November 2005 - Address

When you subscribed to this newsletter by entering your e-mail address into the form on the website, you were added to the subscription roll automatically. But after that, whether you change your address, go on vacation, or unsubscribe, all of that is done by hand. In a computerized database for a computer delivered publication, this might come as a surprise. Well, it has to be that way, because even an intellectual group like this seems to have problems with addresses. Every day I get a request to deal with at least one address that isn't in the database. There are lots of reasons for this, other than bad typing. (When the address is "@yaoo.com" I know to put the "h" back in "yahoo".) Or there has been a slight change in e-mail format (john_smith replaced j.smith). That's why I include the destination address in every message. It's the very last black text on white on this page, the end of the "Your Subscription" section. You might want to check that before asking for a change. I thought I should get th off my chest, and of course, it's also today's theme.

Nothing succeeds like address.
     - Fran Lebowitz

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
     - Ivern Ball

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
     - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
     - Carson McCullers, 1917-1967

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
     - Quentin Crisp, 1908 - 1999

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
     - Ring Lardner, 1885 - 1933

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