QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 10th March 2010, 11:08pm)
I've been thinking about this more, and I'm rooting for Durova.
Well, I think that's understandable, but neither of them are looking so good at the moment... what fun! (IMG:
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As for the scanner,
here's what Mr. Cuerden says (repeated
here):
QUOTE(Shoemaker's Holiday @ 12:35, 10 March 2010 (UTC))
To SandyGeorgia: The scanner was offered because I've spent thousands of pounds on material to scan over the years, but was - and am - unable to work with it due to having now lost my main source of income, and thus was unable to get a replacement scanner. Unlike Durova, I actively seek out historical material, instead of using scans prepared by others.
I'm not sure of the details, and, frankly, with the number of things Durova has said she was going to do - the scanner, the Tropenmuseum exhibition, various other projects she claimed were in the air, and then used to get people to do what she wanted, none of which ever materialized, I doubt there was ever any practical chance of me getting one. But she milked it for months in order to manipulate me.
So if I'm reading this correctly, Mr. Cuerden says that Ms. Durova promised to arrange the "grant" to buy him a new scanner herself, and then didn't. It still sounds slightly fishy, or should I say "banna-phaffish," in that he doesn't say that his old scanner broke, or that he had to sell it - rather he seems to be saying that
he can no longer work with his old scanner because he lost his main income source. Losing your income is bad, but does it really mean you can no longer scan things? Hopefully he just wasn't being clear for some reason.
Also, he spent
thousands of pounds on "material to scan"? What was he scanning, gold bullion? Original paintings from the Post-Impressionist era? Original Shakespeare quartos? Unless he's referring to the scanning hardware itself, I suppose... but even the highest-priced consumer-level scanners are well under 500 quid. Unless he's going through one or two
Epson Perfection-Series scanners per year, I'm not quite down with this part of the story.