Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 18:13:34 -0500
To: _swat.org.swil @ math.wisc.edu
From: jthorpe1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: The Long, Dark Tea Time of the SWIL

        Well, it's a brief SWILnews this week, since not much is going
on
these days--it's after St. Valentine's Day, and before the speaker gets
here, and our job right now is essentially to sit around and be unusual
for
a few weeks. SO...

        Um, submit to BEM, obviously.

        Border's Bookshop has sent me the following flyer, and they've
asked me to pass it on to all of you:

                             BORDERS BOOK SHOP
           1001 Baltimore Pike, Springfield Square Shopping Center
                           Springfield, PA 19064
                                215.543.8588

                                  presents

                         J U D I T H    M O F F E T T 
                            science fiction author

                                        to read EXCERPTS
                                        FROM HER NEWEST BOOKS

        _Time, Like an Ever-rolling Stream_

                        &      _The Ragged World_


                                                Join us in the Poet's
Corner
                                                at the Springfield
Borders

                                    MARCH 2ND

                                 TUESDAY...7:30PM

        It would be most cool if we could get together a contingent to
show
our support...Aaron and I are probably going.  Come along, it could be
fun...

        Remember to sign up for T-shirts on the (physical) SWIL board...

        Read the flourishing discussion about Babylon-5 on the
electronic
SWIL board...

        Always use ellipses...

        Remember that Lynn Westling wants her books (well, more to the
point YOUR books) ASAP, so dig them up if you can, and by all means let
us
know what you've been able to find... She'll be stopping by another
meeting
to fetch them...

        I think that's really about it.  In future weeks we will, of
course, be talking about Greg Frost (who hasn't confirmed his speaking
date
yet...), Schlock, Walpurgisnacht, and Much Much More!  But that's all
after
break.  Right now, let's lean back, relax, and enjoy this brief hiatus
in
the midst of so much confusion and disillusionment.  We will now turn to
the attendance...

Attendance for 2:20:93:
Geoff "Wow, first!" Noer (moving clockwise) [Stop it--you'll get dizzy.
--O]; Don "Holding a strong second" Lehr; Josh "Third...but out of
thirty"
Burdick; Andrea "I hang out with too many Geeks!" Hall; Samuel "Snap,
crackle, cackle, cackle, boil..." Weiler [Retribution for Andrea's
comment,
Sam? --F]; Charles "Well Tai Upity Bang" X.; Melissa "I don't want any
Fig
Newtons" Shaner; Kendra "Cookies are good--_so_ good" Eshleman [Cookies
are
yummy.  Yummy yummy yummy. --O]; Lisa "um-de-dum...trying to think of a
clever name.  Oh damn." Stefanowich; Jove "actually not here, but
editing
text, escorting specs and wearing a spiffy suit" Graham; Peter "I have
re-discovered the Waffle-Magic" Wong; TOPHER "SANS M--FOR NOW" LEROY;
Deb
"omlettes? obliettes?" Sam; Geoff "Attendance sheet again?" Noer; Don
"I've
lost my strong second" Lehr; Josh "Half a muffin later, the potatoes
startled the fork" Burdick [Yeah, they startled the fork outta me. Ha.
--O]; David "Circular hoy - AAAH!" Randall [David!  For God's sake, man! 
What does that MEAN? --O]

                                                Praefecti Quondam
                                                    Praefectique Futuri