Re: WOW!! Thanks for the info--Makes perfect sense now! NIM -- X-PHILES WORLD-John Doggett

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Date Posted: 18:08:54 12/21/99 Tue
Author: CW
Subject: Re: WOW!! Thanks for the info--Makes perfect sense now! NIM
In reply to: MaggieS 's message, "Two Stories" on 20:53:54 12/20/99 Mon

> Story One
>
> In Mythology, Eos, goddess of Dawn, falls in love with
> a mortal: Tithonus. She asks Zeus to grant him
> immortality but forgets to ask for youth. He keeps
> getting older and couldn't die. After he grew feeble
> she locked him away in his chamber. Finally she
> changed him into a grasshopper.
>
> Story Two
>
> True Story: Arthur Fellig was know as 'Weegee' (from
> Ouija board) because he had an uncanny ability to
> predict what would happen and where, and he could get
> there before the police. He was a photographer; a
> photojournalist; he cruised the city streets at night
> in his car. His book 'Naked City' was later made into
> a movie and a tv show. This city was New York, of
> course.
>
> "If he had a picture of two handcuffed criminals he
> would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for
> each." For a bullet riddled corpse it was $5 per
> bullet.
>
> Recipe for an X-Files episode: one part myth and one
> part true story.
>
> B> see a grey: stop, drop & roll...then give him a
> flag?
>
> B)

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