living East of Gilbert & other things

[Wayne Johnson]

Oh, No!

Not Another Mis-Reading of the Text!

Oh, how horridly hermeneutical, nay disconsolately deconstructive
de-construvedly of me.

Oh, Harold, Harold, save me from the errors of my Childe-ish ways.  (To mix
a metaphor or five.)

In other words.............oh, shit.

Yours truly

Bubba Bloom (not as in -sbury...not in Leopold)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: living East of Gilbert & other things


> Wayne,
>
> You seem to have read "psychological particularity"
> as though I had written "psychological peculiarity,"
> thus misinterpreting an intentionally neutral description
> as a pejorative.
>
> Everyone has her psychological particularity, even
> you.
>
> Thanks again for another of your gratuitous scoldings.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: living East of Gilbert & other things
>
>
> > Michael, Michael, Michael
> >
> > For a truly smart person, you sometimes fall into moments of really
> bizarre
> > commentary.  Zane had no, repeat no, "psychological particularity" other
> > than she didn't want to live with a husband who had drug/alcohol
problems
> > and was increasingly unfaithful.  She is one of the kindest and nicest
> > people I know.  She is, like her former husband, one of the few people
> alive
> > whom I knew from my earliest days at UT, she having been in the Home
> > Eco/Interior Design department.  She was/is very smart, with a
marvelously
> > good character (ie. she is a rabid Democrat) and had a fine and quite
> > distinguished career as senior member of the Texas Architectural
Heritage
> or
> > Preservation Board (Part of the Park & Recreation group, maybe??) or
> > whatever it's name was, working diligently to preserve what little
> > "archiectural heritage" Texas had left...after ignorance, greed and
> corrupt
> > planning officials were through with "old" things.  Her daughter
recently
> > completed her PhD in American Studies at Columbia.
> >
> > Speculation is fun, but as we all know, only too well,  "beautiful
> theories"
> > can be quickly destroyed by "ugly facts."
> >
> > Hope you all is well.  And I am pleased to help "fill-in" our mutual
"back
> > story."
> >
> > Also, Frieda Miller lived at one time just East of us. or two houses
over
> > from our Gilbert-centered historical geography.
> >
> > wjohnson
> >
> > While I am on the topic....and feeling really wound up....let me bore
> > everyone, yet again, with the admonition to not forget Fontaine's
Uncle's
> > partner in salvaging the San Antonio River from the Corps of
> > Engineers.....Sam Zisman, a man of courage and vision and guts, wholly
> > unlamented by an unknowning (and possibly uncaring) populace.  Sam was a
> > great man and anyone who enjoys (among many things) the SA River, owes
him
> > and Maury a great debt.
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
> > To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:11 AM
> > Subject: living East of Gilbert
> >
> >
> > > from: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yes.  You are absolutely right.  We lived to the East of Gilbert.
At
> > one
> > > > time Claude Allen lived on the other side of Gilbert.  Molly Brown
> lived
> > > > behind us I think.  Henry somebody lived downstairs...with Molly
> later?
> > > At
> > > > various times Coke Dilworth and Zane (when they were married) and
> Doug,
> > > > Carol and Nancy Cardinal lived beneath us.  I think they were the
> first
> > > that
> > > > we knew of.
> > >
> > > Thanks Wayne for listing long lost names. Coke & Zane. Zane
> > > divorced, yes. In her case, her psychological particularity, being
> > > herself I mean, and her odd name, Zane, seemed to me ever in a
> > > kind of antagonism: the oddness of her name seemed always on
> > > the point of overcoming the saliency of her psychological selfhood.
> > > Was she more Zane or more herself apart from the name?
> > >
> > > They say, rightly, that the past is another country.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>