SC - Documentation

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Tue Sep 23 09:32:54 PDT 1997


Haikufu!

>   It appears that tea is out of period for European feasts and (since it
>   was being brought from China by sea rather than overland)
>   even further out of period for Islamic feasts. It is, of course, in
>   period for Chinese and Japanese feasts. So far as I know, iced
>   tea is a modern invention."
> 
> Push button, get lecture.
> 
> Period is not just a time measurement, but a place measurement (and
> sometimes more).  Asian cultures are never period.
> 
>         Tibor (Pre-17th Century Western Culture)

	Lecture? Gomen nasai. My apologies if it came across that way, I was
just trying to be helpful.

	By your definition of 'period', then, no, tea is not period. No lecture
intended.

	Yumitori (Pre-17th Century Non-Western European Culture)
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