[Bards] Courtesy book

[lanphier taylor]

Hello folks

I would like as many people who can to put their input into this book but
I know no matter what we do someone will take it wrong. I suggested this
project with the plans that I would be the editor and there fore the fall
guy. There is not much anyone can do to me. I don't want to be the
authoritarian figure in charge. For example,Lord Robert's poem, I could
live with it if somehow it was implied that "some" or even "most" people
bow thereby giving us people who don't a way out.  Most of the courtesies
are common and other than this I can't think of anything that would be a
problem. Can any of you think of anything?



On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:28:50 EDT Fitzmorgan at aol.com writes:
> --
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> In a message dated 7/11/02 7:43:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Simone at elfsea.net writes:
>
>
> > I dear freind have to disagree. we've been having this debate on
> the GC list
> > one persons vision of courtesy may not be anothers. just like one
> persons
> > view of the dream may not be anothers. I belive the Bards on this
> list give
> > us a good crosssection of the varring oppinions of what coutesy
> is. I feel
> > that this should be a group effort. Putting one persons vision as
> the
> > template could lead to a publication that is to stringent or
> preachy, and
> > could become a platform for dictating morality instead of what is
> intended.
> > a group concensus could help avoid some possible pitfalls.
> >
> > Simone
> >
> >
>
>        I understand your point and on one level I agree with you,
> but on
> another I disagree.   Almost any custom or tradition you can name
> will
> proubably have someone who doesn't like it.  People are just like
> that.  We
> could all get together in a large group and try to come up with
> something
> that will satisfy everyone and offend no one, but if we did it would
> be so
> bland and lifeless that no one would want to read it.
>        Trying to please everyone leads to bland wishy-washy writing,
> and I
> loathe wishy-washy writing.  A document like this will tend to be on
> the dull
> side anyway and will require some skill and effort to make it
> interesting.
> Trying to please everyone AND be interesting at the same time is
> more than I
> want to try.
>
> Robert
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