Re: Convention of the...

Clive — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:30:43 GMT

Hi,

"If I have had wrong tense, should just be 'If I had'

the passion for numbers that you have for

shrunken heads human heads, cut off and dried in such a way that they shrink in size. Sometimes valued by primitive people

I would run, I wouldn't walk, I would hurry

to the nearest convention of the dead." meeting of dead people

Could you please explain me the underlined parts? This obviously needs a very specific context, which you have not given us.

It sounds like the first professor is a mathematician ad the second one is an anthropologist.

Generally speaking, the first professor is saying that the second professor is strange, macabre and obsessed.

Best wishes, Clive

Convention of the...

Madhulk — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:38:53 GMT

Professor to other professor:

"If I have had the passion for numbers that you have for

shrunken heads I would run, I wouldn't walk,

to the nearest convention of the dead."

Could you please explain me the underlined parts?