Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Thanks.  But it's _Lombok_ (one doesn't often get a chance to correct you
> :-))  Lompoc was the setting of one of W.C.Fields' movies ("The Bank Dick"
> IIRC-- in which he was Edgar Sousé, note the accent aigu), home of the New
> Old Lompoc House hotel and the Black Pussycat Cafe.
Thanks.  Lompoc is a town in California.

Funny, isn't it?  I looked at a map showing Wallace's Line
(at http://www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/zoogeog/walline.html),
saw "Lombok", and typed "Lompok".

> And yes, Darwin did poor Wallace dirt.........
No, Darwin was scrupulously fair.  He could have just stuffed Wallace's
paper down the oubliette: instead, he made sure that it was published
along with his own.  It certainly wasn't anybody's fault that Darwin had,
and Wallace had not, spent decades of his life collecting evidence toward
his _magnum opus_ (of which _The Origin of Species_ was only a hasty
abridgement).

Later on they disagreed on some points, but civilly.  Wallace thought that
the large and complex human brain, able to do things seemingly far beyond
any discernible need, was evidence of divine intervention at just this
one point; Darwin wasn't so sure.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_