Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:58:35 -0500 Reply-To: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers Sender: H-NET List on German History From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers Subject: Re: Querelles Allemandes 1 Submitted by: Charles E. McClelland It is somehow touching, if also quite frightening, to see that the foaming, almost incomprehensible and completely untranslatable rage of "querelles allemandes" is still around for us to contemplate on the e-Net. I wonder if any ordinary contributor to H-GERMAN, lacking Prof. Geiss' "name recognition," would make it through the (very necessary) editorial filters to greet us with this kind of nasty, ad-hominem and -- most seriously -- indecipherable prattle as we open our e-mail. Speaking only for myself, I hope the editors of H-GERMAN will refuse to print anything I ever send in that is so inchoately intemperate, while giving me a chance to reduce my ragings to something that can be discussed with other subscribers to the network. Perhaps the only positive thing that I got out of reading this "contribution" is that I had to think of Goethe on one of his journeys, noting that on that day the coach-driver got into a shouting match with somebody and also the Holy Roman Empire ended. Ho-hum. By then, Goethe had inter alia been a university administrator for a few decades and must have had enough of querelles allemandes academiques. A little more of Goethe's equipoise and a little less Kutschergezaenk would be welcome to me on the H-GERMAN net! Sincerely, Charles E. McClelland Chair, European Studies Program 1104 Mesa Vista Hall University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1181 USA tel: (505) 842-6044 (h) 277-2451 (receptionist) 277-6023 (fax) Internet: cemcc@unm.edu Bitnet: cemcc@unmb .