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From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller

To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 10:14 AM

Subject: Re: [commonsalt] RE: made the world go round Re: [commonsalt] RE: made the world go round International Commission for the History of Salt

Couldn't open your two attachments.  Perhaps because they are MacKintosh files.  Can you send them in another format?  Or paste them into the body of an email?

 

Gerry

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From: ljrobins

To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 9:41 AM

Subject: [commonsalt] RE: made the world go round Re: [commonsalt] RE: made the world go round International Commission for the History of Salt

I don't know a lot about salt but I am very interested in learning more about it. I have used it in a number of my art installations and find that it contains very powerful characteristics, psychologically and physically.

Lissa

Gerry Reinhart-Waller wrote:

Nice to know that some else has an interest in salt.  You seem to know a great deal.  Do you know anything about the salt mines in Poland?  I read some time ago that salt was used to carve sculptings.  Any info you wish to share would be most appreciated. Gerry Reinhart-Waller  

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From: commonsalt@...

To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 8:38 AM

Subject: [commonsalt] RE: made the world go round International Commission for the History of Salt

 

The "The International Commission for the History of Salt"
http://www.uibk.ac.at/sci-org/salt-history/index.html

recently had their meeting in WEIMAR Germany
Did anyone attend ?
 

Dear Halophiles
My apologies for not joining you earelier
As you surely have discovered, few are interested
in salt - [until perhaps they consider
some basic facts].
But even then,  salt is  looked upon
as any other commodity.

May I say welcome
to all you HALOPHILEs and ask you
to consider discussing salt as one of the
four essential elements of animal life which
today we take for granted:
eg:
# air - oxygen [still available - for breathing ]
# water            [becoming more limted - for drinking ]
# protein proteios [inspite of BSE - for developing physique]
# salt             [ physiological electrolytes -
                    today in unlimited supply]

Until the Industrial revolution things were very different
Of these four critical "elements" ,  salt was at times in such
short supply that the resulting protection systems for
those few known sources - the monopolies that we have
since inherited in so many spheres , might be said to
have been the direct cause of much of our civil
unequality

Salt supplies  were extremely limited at times
and its manufacture depended on primitiive fuels
or on sea shore evaporation systems.
To be fair to the historians there were short periods
of tranqulity and  of liberal civilisation
Democratic ideology left us with the hope that
we were again moving towards the legendary
equality of those elite societies.  - but no historian
has suggested that the freedom from such monpolies
wes the freedom to make salt.
 
 
 
 

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