ADS visibility & madman

[George Thompson]

Chicking the source recommended by A Allen, I learn that Ruloff
"had been a botanical physician, jackleg lawyer, schoolmaster,
itinerant lecturer, phrenologist, photographer, mechanical inventor
and, in his final incarnation, philologist—all borderline professions
that had traditionally served as an avenue to public respectability for
gifted, ambitious, or unprincipled men of little means."

Can we all form up in three lines?  The gifted over there, the
ambitious along the wall, and the unprincipled right here.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at COLUMBIA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:41 pm
Subject: Re: ADS visibility & madman

> On 9/26/01 17:26, "AAllan at AOL.COM" <AAllan at AOL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Grant Barrett writes:
> >
> > << I suspect we need our own madman to write about >>
> >
> > We do have one. His name is Edward H. Rulloff. Dick Bailey has
> written a
> > great book about him, which, foolishly, major publishers haven't
> cared to
> > look at. You can see stuff about him at
> >
> > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rwbailey/Rulloff.html
>
> Also about the trial and legal issues:
>
> http://chnm.gmu.ed
>
>
>
>
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