From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:24 PM PT
To: Dr. Teri Lawton
Subject: RE: ...COCoon...29.2

 

Dear Teri,

 

I was just about to respond to Louis who should need no introduction.

 

After first reading his second-to-last email which I have yet to respond to my plan was take Louis who you should also know is 71 years of age on the most extraordinary educational light journey of his life which I still might do but when reading his last email I am thinking that he is in the middle of the worst MENopause in which case he is highly unlikely to ever again find his mind which leads to me conclude that I am “duty bound” to ratchet up my response several notches.

 

Please try and rephrase your first sentence made up of 16 words and when you have completed this homework assignment email it back to along with the email of mine that you reference.

 

In the interim I am going to give thanks to G-d while I prepare myself a delicious home cooked dinner here at our stone home after spending a good hour with a veterinarian probably my age and a younger gentleman from UC Davis who are camping out this rather cold night in their vehicles hoping to trap one previously tagged mountain lion who killed earlier today a rather large size deer-buck, half the buck in the back of the one pickup truck and the rest split, although not necessarily equally, between the lion's stomach and what these two fine gentlemen left in the trap.

 

Not to mention the veterinarian agreed with his very articulate and astute colleague that right where we have our stone home is considered in the "exceptional" category for mountain lions.

 

To mention little of the vet coming across the kill very soon after it happened and was able because of the transmitting pulse to know that he was being circled while noticing that the lion had only got to the liver, yet to eat the heart and as you would know beasts such as lions eat their kill from the "inside out".

 

While I am "armed with knowledge" much more than I ever dreamed possible in my worst nightmare and still ill-equipped to protect myself but certainly better equipped to protect much better both our dogs there is a part of me that has "died" for I will never again be able to enjoy watching in particular Pypeetoe disappear for what at times seems minutes when in fact I know it is rarely over 30 seconds before he comes racing back huffing and puffing as if he had seen a mountain lion who wouldn’t “go lightly” after pouncing on poor, poor, Pypeetoe whose heart I know will give out before he feels any pain.

 

Freedom of movement is something very foreign to Lily White Wheaty Eating Americans but there are tens of millions of South Africans who can still remember very well the Apartheid Regime's insane Pass Laws, laws that were instituted only because the country with the biggest guns whose only foreign policy for the past 100+ years remains “Regime Change”.

 

You should also right now give thanks to G-d that I have no plans to move back to South Africa or anywhere else for that matter because if I did I would be in a much better position to have our slaves in places like South Africa, Peru, Zambia, China and the such exact a price on Americans but only those who contributions to the overall betterment of humankind amount to either nothing or less than nothing.

 

And of course it should be quite obvious that while I am saner than anyone you have ever met I have absolutely no fear.

 

I am in the 29th year of living in the United States and I can count on no more than 2 hands those who I know for a fact have overall contributed positively to the betterment of humankind and such individuals must as logic would dictate include my prior long time girlfriend whose maternal ancestors come from the island of Samos, very close to my heart, my wife whose 1/32nd Huron Indian blood has me constantly thinking, “Blood is as thick as experience” and her professor of professors Sebastian Capella which leaves just more than a handful of people who also make their living in the arts, not to mention that business is more art-form than it is science, to mention little of my 3 siblings who no doubt fill up another 3 fingers and then there is this man Ron Metzker and for the life of me I cannot think of anyone else right now but artist-painter-teacher Ray Anne Marks.

 

Nor have I lived in a cocoon.

 

Gary

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Teri Lawton [mailto:plearn@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:41 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: [Fwd: Fw: European Patent Application No. 98967129.2]

 

Dear Gary,

 

I have taken your advice as you can see by the email you forwarded to

me.  I have let the European patent that I will most likely not use be

abandoned.  It turns out that I have been charged an additional $16,000

in the past two years to keep it going.  They are now charging me $500

to tell the European office to abandon the patent.  They still want

$2000.  I think it best to get the schedule of payments needed to

continue my US and Canadian patent that have been awarded and not pay

the patent office any more money.  I wondered what you thought about this?

 

I do appreciate receiving your most lively emails, and hope that someday

soon I can visit with you and Marie again.  You are a most interesting

person as is Marie and you seem immersed in the middle of the Diamond

Invention.  I find your emails intriguing.  Thanks for including me.

 

I hope that you and Marie and Jonathan and Danielle are doing well.

 

With best wishes,

Teri