Subject: topic forgotten
Date: Dec 27, 2004 @ 08:41
Author: Wolfgang Schaub ("Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@...>)
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Yes why dwell on it at all and bring it to BP?

What do highpoints have in common with boundarypoints? Boundary - border -
frontier - limit. In boundarypoints a small number of boundaries meet:
Three - four - even five perhaps? In highpoints an indefinite number of
lines meet: Sometimes these are boundaries, often borders like watersheds
and cultural divides. Sometimes, if climbing has been arduous, highpoints
were moving your frontiers ahead, and rarely, rarely, you will reach your
limit in them.

It has been only politics that has created your boundarypoints and my
highpoints alike. Had there been no boundaries you would not have to dig for
boundarypoints in flat, muddy fields; and I would not have to argue with
people over the question whether perhaps hill number one is a centimeter
higher than hill number two, only because it happens these two hills are the
highest in a country. Only vain, narcisstic, decadent characters can find
enjoyment in such weird hobbies.

Unfortunately for us, there is a "real" world. And as Europe is concerned,
there are wars going on in areas where "my" highpoints are. Sometimes there
are landmines lieing around...

Maybe it helps reading sometimes - "read" means: take the meaning out of
it -, instead of producing "ga ga".

Best wishes to you all in the New Year, and many boundaries knotting our
brains together,

Wolfgang