C.S. Lewis (best known as the author of the “Chronicles of Narnia”) wrote a wonderful little theologically tinged book on human relationships called “The Four Loves” (Eros, Charity, Friendship, and Affection). Lewis, by the way, was a renowned theologian and medievalist--his specialty was courtly love.

This selection below comes from the Friendship chapter and may shed some light in why we are all here in this forum (for “arrowhead” read Summicron, for “stick” read M6 TTL).

‘Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had to. And to like doing what must be done is a characteristic that has survival value. We not only had to do the things, we had to talk about them. We had to plan the hunt and the battle. When they were over we had to hold a post mortem and draw conclusions for future use. We liked this even better. We ridiculed or punished the cowards and bunglers, we praised the star performers. We revelled in technicalities. (“He might have known he’d never get near the brute, not with the wind that way” . . . “You see, I had a lighter arrowhead; that’s what did it” . . . “What I always say is ---------“ . . . “stuck him just like that, see? Just the way I’m holding this stick” . . .) In fact, we talked shop. We enjoyed one another’s society greatly: we Braves, we hunters, all bound together by shared skill, shared dangers and hardships, esoteric jokes--away from the women and children. As some wag has said, palaeolithic man may or may not have had a club on his shoulder but he certainly had a club of the other sort.’

-- Preston Merchant (merchant@speakeasy.org), April 04, 2002

Answers

I haven't found a way to relate the Book of Mormon to Leica photography but I do, I promise to post the results of the mixed Mormoleicagraphy :)...

Hmm... of course, that puts Barnack cameras into a new light...

-- Alfie Wang (leica_phile@hotmail.com), April 04, 2002.

I haven't found a way to relate the Book of Mormon to Leica photography but I do, I promise to post the results of the mixed Mormoleicagraphy :)...

Please don't.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), April 04, 2002.

Thanks for your insight into this forum. I feel like we should be around a fireside chatting or sumtin with the forum now : )

-- James (snodoggydogg@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.

Let's leave the humor to Alfie's posts

-- Hugh Jass (Hjass@hotmail.com), April 05, 2002.