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[Paul Frank]

Hi Wilson,

I've subscribed to the OED. It's expensive for an individual, but no
more expensive than a meal in a good restaurant in these parts, and at
least as nourishing. I was already subscribed to other Oxford
dictionaries. I wish they offered a single package for all their
dictionaries, because they are great. (Oxford has just published an
excellent Chinese dictionary which is unfortunately not yet online.)

Paul



On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> I am
>> neither a university-based academic nor an independent or any other
>> kind of scholar nor a resident of a North American city
>
> You have no access through The World's Greatest University? I *used*
> to have access even as only a retiree who no longer had an
> @fas.harvard.edu e-mail address. Then, the WGU revamped its library IT
> system and, suddenly, Oh, heck! There's simply no way that this new
> system can be modified so as to allow the University to continue to
> offer the full range of  information services formerly available to
> any holder of a Harvard ID. Full access is now restricted to only
> current faculty, staff, and students. We're so very sorry! :-( But you
> can still use the on-line catalog, :-) "just like any other regular
> jack-off," as the members of the rock group, Dethlok, say.
>
> Fortunately, my wife continued in her position. I could lie my way
> into the system by using her PIN and ID-card number. But, now that
> she's retired, too, paradise has been lost. Sigh!
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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