IN PRESENCE OF GREATNESS

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Steven J. Manning" <sjmanning () fymc com>
Date: October 17, 2008 5:58:04 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: IN PRESENCE OF GREATNESS
Reply-To: sjmanning () fymc com

For IP if you wish...

Dear Dave.

In the presence of greatness...

With your kind indulgence, a bit of seemingly significant diversion  
from the typical content of interest from you and your constituents of  
“interesting-people”.

I read all you publish with genuine interest.  To confess, often  
enough with more interest than understanding.  I do recognize some of  
your contributors among people whose competencies and accomplishments  
are substantially beyond simply “interesting”.  With the risk of  
sounding patronizing, you are among those.  One of the reasons for my  
faithful reads of your emails is the recognition that some of your  
contributors and readers are among those whose presence I would thrill  
to be in.

I have had the good fortune to meet a few people who are indeed among  
the “greats.”  You know, the number one, the best, the leader, the  
greatest... in industry, the arts and sports.  I have come to hold  
that it is the achievement that is the pinnacle of the paradigm, not  
the discipline wherein the achievement was accomplished.  To be in the  
presence of the universally acclaimed “best shoe-shine person” in the  
world, albeit not comparable to the “best/top/premiere/greatest”  
practitioners of skills and applicants of knowledge in many, many  
other more sophisticated endeavors, is still being in the presence of  
greatness.

Thus, a truly unique intellectual and emotional thrill.

And with that, Dave, a simple mention on the quiet and untimely  
passing of an American treasure.  Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the  
FOUR TOPS.  He did not invent a mousetrap of any kind.  Nor  
penicillin.  Nor did he participate in our ascent into space.  He was  
not high tech.;  just virtual and timeless.   Like R&B or not, we all  
lost a piece of “greatness” today.

My best.

Steve.

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