Mortified by my social gaffe, I mumbled my apologies, and she added,
`Probably six weeks.'
Amazing, I thought. Here I am, on the net, surrounded by people happy to
offer arcane items of info - from their professional stock or gleaned from
hungry curiosity - and this not-at-all-pretentious woman was genuinely if
briefly taken aback that I should expect her to recall something so
low-level, so beneath her status.
[Um. This stifled outburst is probably the result of just having browsed
in the ferociously intelligent and widely curious home page of
kristen brennan <kbrennan@teknowledge.com>
at
www.jitterbug.com/pages/brennan.html ]
Damien Broderick