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Issue No 339 Monday March 6th 2000
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AGENDA
Minutes and Matters Arising
1. News: Congratulations, Continuation Audit, Grant announcement, Russian
trip, Russell Group, Mozambique.
2. Tips for would-be Proustians (II).
3. Readers' Letters: Proust, Austria, Origins of the university, Alzheimer's,
Branding, London Marathon, Sponsored Fire Walk.
4. Small Ads: Cot, High Chair, Accommodation Wanted, Storytelling at the
Dukes, Surfacing exhibition, Peter Scott Gallery events, Guitar, Toshiba
portable, Dinky and Corgi toys, Come! Hear!.
MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING
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Weekend opening hours at The Venue are now 12.00 - 6.00. This will
certainly increase turn-over, but will be regretted by the small but
growing numbers who discovered it on weekend mornings, when most
students and visitors are told there is nowt but take-aways from
Diggle's or Spar.
1. NEWS
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CONGRATULATION TO LOUISE BANTON on the birth of Erin Zara, sister for
Lorcan, on the 17th February.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SANDY STEWART, Research Professor in the History of
Philosophy, who is also an Honorary Professor at the University of
Aberdeen, and has been elected to a Senior Research Fellowship at
Harris Manchester College, Oxford, where former Lancastrian colleague
Professor John Brooke is also now resident.
CONGRATULATIONS TO JAYNE STEEL, tutor in the Department of Creative
Writing. Jayne wrote the script for the film Mavis and the Mermaid,
which has just won the Pathe-Kodak Short Film Showcase award. The film,
directed by Juliet McKoen, is set in Barrow and stars Sylvia Simms and
Eric Sykes. Thousands of films were entered and eight shortlisted.
Mavis and the Mermaid won hands down with over 50% of the vote. It is
now entered for the Cannes Film Festival in May 2000.
LAST WEEK'S GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT is being studied in detail and no doubt
the Planning Office will present an interpretation to this weeks UMAG.
Our gross cash increase of 2.5 per cent seems to be broadly in line
with what we were expecting, but the differences in allocations for
individual departments vary significantly, as a function of
post-graduates, etc. This can make a big difference in the case of a
large outfit like ES, for example. Incremental creep, promotions and
insufficient departures leave a continuing annual 'funding gap' of 800K
to 1m.
No point in commenting on inter-institutional differences without
knowing the reasons for them. Places that seem to have done
proportionately well may have even greater extra costs to cope with.
What is startling is the allocated student numbers for St Martin's, now
operating on several sites and catching up with us in home/EU
undergraduate terms (while making little impact in terms of research
funds).
THE CONTINUATION AUDITORS have been and gone. A widespread view that
they were very rigid in their procedures (and possibly in their
thinking - that would be expected of people who fancy a job like that).
Our various teams painted an enthusiastic and convincing picture.
Whether they were convinced that our diversity is a strength and
assurance of greater quality remains to be seen. They were cocerned by
inconsistencies in our questionnaires, for example, though we would
argue that improves them. The kind of lateral comparisons they seek are
not only impossible but undesirable, but that's government policy for
you. Major concerns may centre on validation procedures. If so they
will be communicated to the VC this week. Otherwise the initial report
is expected in May.
THE ON-LINE DONATION FACILITY FOR THE DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE's
Mozambique appeal at can be found at http://www.dec.ac.uk
More traditional methods of adding to the appeal fund are also
available:
Credit Cards/Switch donation telephone line: 0870 60 60 900
By post to:
THE DEC MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS APPEAL
PO BOX 999
LONDON EC3A 9AA
Please make Cheques payable to: THE DEC MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS APPEAL
All expenditure of DEC Appeal Funds is subject to independent evaluation.
THE RUSSELL GROUP OF UNIVERSITIES was so named because its first
meeting was held in the Russell Hotel in Bloomsbury. A reader asks
about membership. It comprises:
Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool,
Imperial, LSE, University College (London), Manchester, Newcastle,
Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton and Warwick.
The 94 Group "of research intensive universities" seemed to comprise
the universities that might have felt miffed at not being invited to
join the Russell group - except that it includes Warwick which belongs
to both. It comprises 13 research-led higher education institutions
ranked in the top 20 for research excellence. They each have a high
research profile, large postgraduate populations and above average
ratings in Research Assessment Exercises. They tend towards large
viable departments within institutions which are small or medium-sized
overall. None have medical schools: Bath Birkbeck Durham East Anglia
Essex Exeter Lancaster Reading Surrey Sussex Warwick York (one seems to
be missing but I got that list from Durham).
MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG: Dr Alan Wood (History) is recently returned
from his annual visit with students. He was accompanied on this
occasion by the Furness Principal and her husband who enjoyed the trip
immensely. It is rumoured that he has numerous members of staff already
signed up for next year's trip, not all of them vodka drinkers.
2. TIPS FOR WOULD-BE PROUSTIANS (II)
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Right, this has all been said before and no doubt others have said it
better, but I'll do it my way, and I'm going to tailor it to a
Lancaster audience and to those would-be Proustians who want to enhance
their enjoyment of the film Time Regained, where he discovers the
answers to everything, and has to set about writing the book you would
like to have just finished reading... but quickly so that his secret
doesn't die with him like Fermat's last theorem.
The opening pages of Combray, first part of the first volume,
introduce us to an insomniac narrator describing the penumbra between
sleep and wakefulness. You wake up and think it's time to go to sleep.
Or you think you ARE the object of your dream. And you can't remember
at first which room you are in because all the furniture seems in the
wrong place, etc. Ah, the bedrooms I have known....
The narrator is a sickly and middle-aged man called 'je' attended by a
very loyal family retainer called Celeste. As the story opens he is
tossing and turning sleeplessly, and at the end of the last volume we
realise he is working by night on the novel we have just been reading,
adding endless detail and parentheses to it on stuck-together bits of
paper. It is some of these bits of paper (the real ones from the
Bibliotheque Nationale) that we see, along with Celeste, at the start
of the film.
Four times in 3000 odd pages the narrator is called 'Marcel' but that
is prolly a bit of an accident and would probably have been edited out
if he'd had time. Direct identification he did not think desirable,
especially as far as his friends were concerned, and there are indeed
important transpositions and amalgamations of real people among ALL his
characters. The homosexual novelist has endowed his heterosexual
narrator with other characteristics too that he did not really possess.
It is a creative work of fiction, however autobiograhical it seems.
In a life of many bedrooms, the one that most affectionately comes
back to him is his bedroom at his aunt's house in the country where his
family always spent the hottest part of the summer when he was a boy.
You can visit it on a day trip from Paris, and the village, between
Chartres and Chateaudun, has changed it's name to Illiers-Combray in
honour of it's fame. A member of our Ruskin programme even arranged for
it to be twinned with Coniston!
Frankly it's very dull, not at all picturesque...and so is his
bedroom. No-one who visits it fails to feel that art and memory
certainly do enhance reality. To visit it is, moreover, to worship at
the shrine of a dead man, and is precisely what Proust's novel is going
to teach us not to do.
But by and large Combray in these idyllic childhood summers is the
axis around which the overture revolves. He recalls his bedroom there
and the magic lantern slides projected on to the door, whose handle
deformed objects, especially the ones telling medieval romances like
the story of Genevieve de Brabant. He also remembers his mother reading
George Sand to him. I think we do get a flash of this 'other' bedroom
in the course of the film, and we certainly see the boy he was, for
three young people play the narrator in the film, as well as the
remarkable Marcello Mozzarella, or whatever his name is, who IS the
narrator but doesn't have to speak.
There is a childhood trauma he associates with that bedroom which
comes back to him hauntingly across the years and still fills him with
vivid emotion. You may think it a tragedy in a tea-cup but he describes
it in minute detail and makes it seem a real drama. It's all to do with
not getting the goodnight kiss which his mother used to give him when
she came up to switch out the light.
If his parents had grown-up visitors he was sent to bed early and
didn't get the kiss. His father discouraged his mother from leaving the
table to see him since he (rightly!) thought the boy was being
molly-coddled. Without that kiss he was terribly unhappy and couldn't
sleep.
The commonest visitor, Charles Swann, was a stock-broker from the
nearby estate of Tansonville whom his parents knew from Paris and who
was a great conversationalist, art-lover and wealthy connoisseur. They
didn't really approve, because he had made an 'unsuitable' marriage
with an ex-whore whom they, repectable university people, could not
possibly invite, but they knew he was well-bred and felt they were
doing him a favour by inviting him to a respectable and educated
household in the country.
They would have been amazed, the narrator tells us, if they had known
just how wealthy and well-connected the modest and self-deprecating M.
Swann was. They never suspected that socially he was even superior to
them, mixed with the aristocracy on first name terms. Even was a friend
of the Prince of Wales! One of the crucial lessons of this book is just
how impossible it ever is to really 'know' another person. People
almost always fail to appreciate each other until it's too late.
Anyhow, Swann always walked round from his place and came in by the
back garden gate, not by the front door like most visitors. You could
tell it was him by the shrill and tinny tinkling of the bell on the
gate. The narrator's heart used to sink whenever he heard it because he
knew it meant he wouldn't get that good-night kiss. Nice piece of
Pavlovian conditioning.
There was one night when he was totally desperate and decided to go
downstairs and interrupt the grown-ups. This was an extraordinary
resolution and took long decision-making and considerable courage,
because he had been taught total obedience, knew his father would be
furious and would insist on him going stright back upstairs. Anyhow -
he just had to do it....
And when he did, he was astonished by everyone's understanding. His
dad said it was just nerves, and his mother was allowed to go upstairs
and sit with him till he fell asleep. That evening was a victory but
also a terrible defeat, for he felt sad that he had destroyed parental
authority, shown a lack of will-power, breached the rules and abandoned
childhood certainties. Nothing again would ever seem secure and be
believed unquestioningly. Remembering the sound of that tinny bell
makes his heart sink even years later.
NB In summarising these key events that structure the narrative, there
is a danger of missing the point. As Fiona Frank points out the process
is as more important as the product, and the 'texture' of the prose is
rich and filled with innumerable asides, metaphors, witty or wise
commentaries and leaps forward in time. A fruit-cake to be savoured.
[ To be continued. Crikey! 3000 odd pages to go. Have to speed up.]
3. READERS' LETTERS
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I note that another entrant beat me in asking you to publicise his
running for charity in the London marathon on April the 16. I wonder if
I can do the same.
I will be running the Millennium London marathon in aid of WaterAid.
It is a charity which helps the world's poorest people provide
themselves with a safe water supply and a sanitation system close to
home. I am hoping to raise 500 pounds which is enough to provide a
village community with a handpump. Offers of sponsorship by e mail or
via the post in Biology will be much appreciated.
Dr. Keith Jones,
Department of Biological Sciences
[NOTE: I think you should raise your target, and hope that the many
people who are sponsoring Phil Payne for a fiver will do the same for
you. (Ed.)]
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You didn't say anything about the very funny descriptions and ironic
comments which are dotted through the book, the first book (since Zorba
the Greek when I was 16 and impressionable) I can say I am actually
enjoying 'reading' (rather than rushing through to get to the end to
find out 'what happened'.)
How about an Inkytext (open) Proust Readers Appreciation Society
School Trip to the film at the Dukes at its 5.30 showing on Monday 27th
March? We could meet at 5.15 in the bar so we 'know who we are' and
then adjourn somewhere afterwards for Gordon to lead a discussion? Any
takers? Are you up for that Gordon? Let me know how many of you would
like to do this so I can see if we need to book a room
somewhere!(f.frank@lancaster.ac.uk)....
Fiona Frank (still half way through vol. 5 after 7 happy months)
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A recent theme in Inkytext has been the early years of the University.
So I thought I'd throw in my two penn'orth (with which you could have
bought a Milky Way in the 1960s).
I was either one of the first participants in a "Take Your Daughters'
to Work" programme, or my parents had childcare problems, but I do
remember a visit to a campus which was largely a muddy building site.
The visit was memorable probably more because it was the first time I
was allowed to sit in the front of Dad's electricity board van. I can't
have been much more than a toddler because I remember my legs sticking
out off the front of the car seat, although this is a situation I still
encounter occasionally with some deep-seated furniture.
The building of the University was quite a tourist attraction in those
days, or at least my Dad thought it was. On Sunday afternoons he would
regularly take visiting friends and relatives on a tour of the site.
The notion of buses stopping in the Underpass was met with rolling eyes
and heavenward glances. "Students can't be allowed to wait in the rain
like everyone else, can they?"
The University remained an alien place to me and my family for many
years. I remember work experience at the health centre when I was 16
and then an interview for a clerical post in Careers when I was 19. In
1989 I entered the University as a mature student. The campus was
immediately recognisable as a building site.
I brought my Dad up here one Saturday afternoon. He was almost
speechless at the size of the Library, never having seen so many books
on so many subjects. Apart from maps and AA road guides, his own
library consisted of a 1930's copy of "Just William" and a green
covered tome entitled "Practical Cable Jointing". I really don't think
he ever understood what the University that he had helped build was all
about. Thankfully I am now engaged in demystifying it.
June Watson
Summer College Co-ordinator, Department of Continuing Education
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The Alzheimer's Society is the leading care and research charity for
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carers. We are always in need of public support and you could help us
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In recent years the Alzheimer's Society has brought hope into the
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The marathon is an important part of the Society's fundraising. I
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Alzheimer's Society, Gordon House, 10 Greencoat Place, LONDON SW1P 1PH
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'Guest contribution' sounds far too grand! Started out as a letter,
but I suppose it did grow a bit. Surprised, too, by the calmness and
fairness of your notes: expected to be torn limb from limb. NOT
surprised that I merely reinforced your existing views.
Note 1. There is certainly a distinction between brand and generic
advertising; but there isnt much of the latter, and new markets are
definitely not grown by it. Advertising of individual brands is what
causes sales of product categories as a whole to increase. I think all
advertisers realise that word of mouth is the best advertising they can
get, but it's hard to come by.
Note 2. What you agreed to was not my own view, of course. but, O.K.
Note 3. I dont think Parker was referring to minor inexactitudes and
their correction, so much as quarrels between departments, or, say,
that between Leavis and his 'colleagues' which kept Leavis out of a
chair - though that, I guess, would have been a fairly high stake for
Leavis.
Sorry for my snide and unjustified distinction between rejoinder and
correction - and that I didnt succeed in achieving correction (though
as I implied above, I didnt expect to).
Note 4. While I can agree with you about Blue Nun and Le Piat d'Or, I
hope you would agree that the wine market is a very special case. In
most of the more down-to-earth markets with which marketing men (and
consumerists) are concerned there's nothing that corresponds to the
unadvertised Rhone rankings, vintages, chateaux, etc. Kelloggs Corn
Flakes, Heinz Baked Beans, etc., etc., are superior to own- or
non-branded lines; and its Kelloggs, Heinz, etc., etc., who have
created the markets in the first place, through brand advertising.
'Gullibility'? I believe that most of those who have tried it have
found that, though they could fool some, but not all, of the people
some of the time, they could only do it once: trial purchases only lead
to repeat purchases if the products fulfil expectations.
Albert Schofield, RTD.
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Naive, wrong, etc. etc. (I'm sure plenty of other adjectives might
have been thought of.)
Sorry, Andy and others, if my piece disappointed you or failed to get
fore-square behind the anti-Nazi meeting last Wednesday. But that does
not make it any less of a fallacy to refer to the Austrian New Right as
"Fascist" (nor to the 'new right' in Europe generally): populist,
anti-establishiment, nationalist and, at times, xenophobic they may be,
but it would be as well for people to get their terms about the past
right before mislabelling the present. It is even more preposterous to
label these movements 'Nazi'. (A better parallel might be the UK
Independence Party).
It is not because these labels are thrown around with such abandon,
that they have any claim to accuracy. But it is of course a tempting
campaigning tool: focused language misuse can have impressive effects on
people's perceptions -- just ask Goebbels.
The trouble is that if the only weapon you are going to use is just
such propaganda, there is not only an inherent moral hazard, but also,
in case that is not a concern, you simply demonise and ostracise not
just the party but all those who voted for it. The result in terms of
support for that party in future needs little guessing.
If we claim to have a genuine interest in the democratic underpinnings
of our society, not only is such a tactic hypocritical and does it
undermine the very values we are proclaming, but we also have a duty to
inquire into the real underlying factors which brought the phenomenon
about, as well as to get a grip on what in fact the leadership, the
membership, and the constituency of the FPO (categories needing to be
distinguished) are really about. That, inconveniently, cannot be done
on the basis simply of indignation, rage, and the anti-democratic means
that this may tempt one to.
Let me say here that if I had been Austrian, I would have campaigned
hard against the FPO, and of course voted against. I don't like some of
the FPO innuendo that the contribution from Austria in the previous
Inkytext referred to. I find some of their simplistic rhetoric about
solutions for Austria's problems risible, and I despise the (limited)
extremist supporters the party is attracting.
Yet the examples given in the articulate piece from Austria (Dr
Fiddler's friend) do not, in fact, amount to the sort of 'hard
evidence' on the basis of which one could in conscience condemn someone
to the stake (or as an anti-Semite). Simon Wiesenthal -- surely no fake
himself -- seems to have taken this on board more seriously than those
who have reacted more impulsively. The fact that some feel that
unspoken threats may lie behind Haider's words, does not give them the
authority to act as juror and judge, if the punishment imposed itself
undermines democratic principles.
If there were incontrovertible evidence of policies which aim at
demolishing democracy and attacking human rights, then of course that
would, and could, be outlawed (although extreme care would have to be
taken in the definition of the threat). Failing that, however, none of
my dislike for the FPO would give me or anyone else the right simply to
say that the vote of a third of the electorate must forever be taken
away.
That, in effect, is what some activists are saying. Or, to quote my
favourite punching ball of the moment, the Belgian foreign minister:
"the electorate can be silly, they can be naive, so it is sometimes
better not to take them into acount". Who exactly are the undemocratic
forces here?
Defining the threat into existence by claiming the sole right to
interpret the evidence and by imposing the (mis)use of labels; and then
claiming the right to outlaw anything that is defined (by the same
observer) as feeding, or relating to, that threat, is perfectly
understandable and may even point to hearts being in the right place.
But in its essence it would be similar to, and no better supported by
moral or practical arguments than, the Algerian military's annulment of
the 1991 elections, the McCarthyite excesses in the USA, the
Inquisition, Stalin's domestic measures to defend the revolution, the
Turkish suppression of things Kurdish, or indeed the oppressive fascism
of the 1930s.
Gerd Nonneman
PS -- A very worthwhile piece by a professor of history at the Central
European University (currently at the Woodrow Wilson Center), and now
working on the Jewish Question in Austria, can be found on the Center's
website: http://wwics.si.edu/NEWS/mitten.htm
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SPONSORSHIP: Calling anyone who would like to see me go up in flames
(or preferably not, from my point of view). I'm undertaking the RAG
week Fire Walk on Saturday 11 March and seek sponsorship for the RAG
charities including Diabetes Trust, Homeless Action, Meningitis
Awareness. I can be contacted on ext 94477, e mail or via Independent
Studies or Furness College.
Janet Clements
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4. SMALL ADS
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FOR SALE: Cot/Bed (Mamas and Papas): Two height cot, converts to bed,
medium colour wood, 60.00. Ring Gina 01524 415717.
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FOLDING HIGHCHAIR (Argos): very good condition, 15.00. Ring Jenny,
evenings (01524 412690)
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TALES AND MUSIC AT THE DUKES
15th March - performance storyteller Nick Hennessey
Tales and tunes will be woven into a fascinating tapestry when
performance storyteller Nick Hennessey visits the Dukes in Lancaster on
Wednesday 15th March.
Nick has a repertoire of stories from around the world and across the
centuries. Not only does he spellbind with words, he is also an expert
harp and recorder player and ballad singer.
A Times newspaper reviewer said of a recent performance this 32 year
old rising star of the storytelling world gave in London: "his fluid
style, engaging presence and wicked grin is a winning combination."
So if you ever wondered what happens after "once upon a time" this is
a perfect chance to find out.
Tickets are 5.00, 4.00 concessions, and can be obtained from the Dukes
on Moor Lane, Lancaster, telephone 01524 66645. The performance takes
place in the bar, and begins at 8 pm.
Nick Hennessey's performance at the Dukes is the latest in a series of
storytelling events supported by Lancaster LitFest. Previous events, which
have seen packed audiences, have included the sultry Cat Weatherill, Ben
Haggarty and a night of shared tales from locally based storytellers.
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VISITING SCHOLAR FROM CANADA IS LOOKING FOR A ROOM TO RENT/LET in a
quiet, non-smoking flat in Lancaster. May - June and then September
onwards. Please contact Kirsten at k.mcallister@lancaster.ac.uk.
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SURFACING
an exhibition of new paintings by three final year art students at
Lancaster University. An exhibition curated by four art history
undergraduates as part of their degree. All works are abstract or semi
abstract and deal with surface texture and surface effects.
KATE MATTHEWS - EMMA HUNTER - JONATHAN LEE
13th - 17th March
at Gardener's Corner, King Street
Admission Free
A catalogue costing 1 pound is available.
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20TH - 24TH MARCH IS NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK
The Peter Scott Gallery is running a series of events to be held as
part of the current exhibition:
Art/Science: Lancaster University's Art and Science Collections.
Monday 20th March
1pm - Biological Science Large Lecture Theatre
Meet 12.45 at the Peter Scott Gallery
FROM MORECAMBE BAY TO A LANCASTER LECTURE THEATRE
Professor Potts
will give a talk on the University's 22' long Sei Whale skeleton.
ADMISSION FREE
ALL WELCOME
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Wednesday 22nd March
1pm - DROP IN!
Storyteller-in-residence, Linda Cotterill will relate stories in the
Peter Scott Gallery featuring the science collections.
7.30pm - Another opportunity to hear the stories told by Linda
Cotterill - Storyteller-in-residence in the Peter Scott Gallery- Please
book a place
ADMISSION FREE
ALL WELCOME
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Thursday 23rd March
1pm - DROP IN!
Storyteller-in-residence, Linda Cotterill will relate stories in the
Peter Scott Gallery featuring the science collections.
ADMISSION FREE
ALL WELCOME
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GUITAR FOR SALE. High quality Japanese Akito Sendai classical guitar.
Beautiful tone. Ideal for beginner. 75 pounds.
sadie.williams@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone extension 2896.
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TOSHIBA SATELLITE 300, 166 MMX pentium processor, 32 MB ram expandable
to 144 MB 2 MB video ram, 2.1 GByte hard drive, floppy drive, 16 speed
CD rom, 12.1 inch TFT screen, 64 bit graphics controller, win95
operating system. Sound blaster pro & windows sound system. PCMCIA card
slot, carrying case. Excellent condition. 450 pounds
Also ORIGINAL CORGI/DINKY cars, many boxed, all in good to excellent
condition, ideal for collector, various prices Tel David 01524 423105
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COME, HEAR!
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Venue: Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex)
Fridays 1.10pm - 1.50pm,
Weeks 6 - 11 (except week 10)
Week 9 (10 March) "ACOUSMATICS"
Unheard-of worlds calling from beyond the veil;
Unseen sounds to stir the imagination.
All welcome! Bring your ears; bring your (non-crunchy!) lunch. Relax
or concentrate as you wish. Forget Bailrigg; explore exciting new
realms presented over a 12-channel loudspeaker system!
[Come, Hear! is introduced and diffused by Lisa Whistlecroft and Steve
Benner]
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