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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner...On The Subject of Envy

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 18:24:40 08/19/05

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Clearly you, a seasoned collector, does not understand the esence of being one
and the ways the God of Collections, Mercury, -ask me, an experienced clasicist,
why- keeps his followers as such, always following....
Dear Steve: to say it in few words, the item you almost never can get is exactly
the item that keeps alive your passion. A collection is dead the day is
finished. Specially it is or can be so when, as in this case, the complete
adition of every item is a finite, discrete, very limited number. As a book
collector I can say you I  have not that problem. There are millions books I
want to have. No way I will ever finish nothing.
But you can.
There is a just a few models and brands in computer chess. 100? 200? 500?
Nothing for a collector.
So, Mercury devised this trap to keep you in; the bloody  CXG Sphinx 40  wooden
auto-sensory chess computer you cannot get.
It is your desperation and -confess it- your joy.
In fact you even get aditional ways to erode your stock trought the benficence
in favor of dearest friends.
I pray you will never get the CXG Sphinx 40  wooden auto-sensory chess computer.
Not until the last day of your life.

Mercurial Regards
Fernando



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