-=> Quoting David Martorana to Clarence Hogan <=-
 ++> On March 6, 1998 Clarence Hogan wrote to
 ++> David Martorana on "Fractals and Creation"
 
 DM>> P.S. Have you heard anything from Clarence ?
 
 CH> All present and accounted for sir!  :)
 
 DM> Very good! I always miss you even when our exchanges
 DM> occasionally run out of steam or get "thorny"
 Hey, even the best of friends don't agree on everything, but they
 don't try to smother one another by trying to put them in a box
 either, right?
  
 CH> Haven't missed a message since I got my new PC 2MB that crashed
 CH> the second day replaced with my new 4GB!
 
 DM> I'm still crawling along with an ol' 386 and a hard disk beginning
 DM> to squeal a bit (on and off). I hit the side of the case (like an
 DM> old radio) and it usually quiets down (for awhile).
 
 HeeHee, sounds just me and my old 386, but this new one can be a 
 bit cantankerous at times too, can't seem to get Iomega and Norton
 CrashGuard to recognize my "D" Zip drive or disk and it is giving
 me a fit, but I just bought three new disks the other day locally
 and two were fine for my backup disks, but the third one I am trying
 to use for my recovery Zip Disk won't format so I am going to take
 it back to the store and see if they will replace it as Norton's
 Disk Doctor can't seem to fix it!
 CH> Wot's ya' got on.......yer mind?  ;)
 
 DM> I tried to get in on your exchanges with William Elliot but
 DM> could never figure what the two of you were ever talking about!
 
 Nothing serious enough to worry over as far as I could tell!  :)
 DM> As usual, I'm ever off on a late goosechase after everyone else
 DM> has already tired of a topic ....sort of like searching old
 DM> mines that have run out. 
 
 Sounds like me, a day late and hundred shovel fulls short!  :)
 DM> While beating around in such dustbins,
 DM> "FRACTALS" peeked up at me and my curiosity (like a cat) had me
 DM> nosing around. Not being a number whiz, I have to translate math
 DM> into simple arithmetic. I also had to relearn my old BASIC
 DM> programing language and how to generate bit graphics. Though I
 DM> haven't plotted a true "fractalation" yet, I am up to the point
 DM> of plotting dots on the screen.
 
 Don't feel bad, I had A+'s in math and I still have to think hard
 to add two and two to get five!  :)  But isn't plotting the dots
 the easy part and the question is, will you be able to connect 'em?
 DM> Also I reread the Naj Hamadi Gnostic Library again; several
 DM> years and with wide sweeps through other material, I understood
 DM> a lot more of what I was reading this time ....though still not
 DM> a bell ringer .
 
 I wouldn't mind reading that Library myself, does a local Library
 have it?
 DM> Also been some busy defending the President and boxing around
 DM> with the IRAQi thing (other local conferences) ..........!
 
 Well, so long as he is the President and is trying to protect the
 interests of our country as well as others, we are duty bound to
 back him IMHO!
 DM> AND I still persue my own definition of importance
 DM> on the other side of self ....a life quest  !!!
 
 Which is a pursuit worth pursuing IMHO!  :)
 DM> With each holiday I put together an elaborate decorated envelope
 DM> package for the grandkids (4). The "St. Pats" version this year will
 DM> have a write-up on their "IRISH" connection (actually Orange
 DM> Scotch-Irish) on my wife's side, but close enough to the "Green"
 . One of the best last year, on Halloween, was the story of their
 DM> GGGGrandmother being attacked by a werewolf (lupu-minaru) in old
 DM> Sicily. To spice it up I also told of my own birth beneath a full
 DM> moon (May 9, 1933) and the "wicca marks" on my back. While
 DM> researching the family history some time back, many old near
 DM> forgotten tales came to light and I wrote them all down. Now I pass
 DM> them on during appropriate holidays.
 
 All of which sound interesting and especially to those grandkids
 which I hope have an appreciation for their background and your
 efforts!  HeeHee, sounds kinda' like your GGGGrandmother passed 
 the werewolf's genes down to you, but I suspect that by now they
 have weakened to the point that you like a bit of turning completely
 into one, right?  Of course you know that I am also of Irish decent
 and a little of everything else mixed in, but as far as turning into
 a werewolf, I got as far as the hairy part and quit!  :)  My first
 cousin who was a Captain in the Air Force is working up our complete
 family history now and I am waiting to see it and find out exactly
 what kind of a sooner I truly am, but I already know that there is a
 long line of preachers in my background on the Hogan side!  My cousin
 is a big time lawyer in Nashville now and he enjoys working on that
 kind of thing and he can have it as I have done so much paper work in
 my life that I am truly sick of it and if I had to do this writing by
 hand, you would not be getting this message!  ;)  But fortunately, one
 of my aunts had a typewriter when I was about 5 or 6 and it really 
 got my attention and I just had to take typing when I finally got into
 high school and I took such an interest in it that I passed both books
 in one year and received two credits cause we only had typing I & II
 in the 40's!
 DM> Bet you're sorry you asked "Wot's ya' got on.......yer mind?  ;)"
  
 Not really, for I know that you are a well dressed man of means!  ;)
 Nice to chat with you again David!
Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence.......
... Happiness: A modem, a rainy day and e-mail friends!  :)))))))
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