One down, about a thousand to go. Just got an email from Edinburgh:
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Dear Hannah,
Thank you for your application to study at the University of Edinburgh.
I am very pleased to inform you that we are able to make you a general
unconditional offer of admission as a Visiting Undergraduate in the
College of Humanities and Social Science for academic session 2006/07.
I am writing with this initial confirmation as it may assist with your
planning for your time abroad.
In addition to this email we will send you a written offer letter
detailing the courses on which you have been enrolled. This letter will
also include information about applying online for University
accommodation. This offer letter can be used for visa purposes (although
this email offer can be considered as a formal and binding offer from
the University of Edinburgh).
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So there you have it. A formal and binding offer from the university. I'm on my way.
…and also 2007. Because I don't share blogs well and have no intention of emailing you all individually.
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Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beautyand grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being. (Plutarch)
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