[AGL] ] Fan Letter

mwheless mwheless at airmail.net
Mon Oct 9 22:00:51 EDT 2006


Hey, don't forget me. I am childless.
marilyn
in
menard
West Texas Headquarters
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <blacky at cbn.net.id>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: [AGL] Fan Letter


Mike, I always enjoy your writing style and 'take' on the situation. You
have an expressive way about you.

Cheers

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according to literature, the average man/woman lives a life
> of silent dispair.
>
> many in real life opiate themselves with their living descendants,
> many (most?) of us here at Austin ghetto are childless. about
> half and half married and living alone. Connie is in Houston,
> Karen (childless) is in Austin, so is Fontaine. Ewie in Hawaii,
> Byron (childless) in Indonesia, Gilbert (childless) in France,
> Jon Ford in Palo Alto, Wayne (childless) in semi-rural Virginia,
> Gerry near Silver Springs, NM
>
> in flights of fancy we long for Xanadu. Xanadu is out in the
> country, friendly locals, easy grocery shopping, and the
> weather. Oh dear! the weather in Xanadu is 73 Fahrenheit
> all the time. a great place to be when dealing with our
> poisonal devils.
>
> it is very dangerous to live in Xanadu if your poisonal life
> is not keeping up with what is available out there.
>
> not easy to live in NYC or Paris without a better than
> average despair coefficient. imagine the alienation of
> being alone in such a place.
>
> still and all one could be living in the ninth arrondissement
> surrounded by minorities and dog shit but go down the
> street and stand on a blvd and look towards the west
> and see the architecture receding into the haze and feel
> oneself lifted up by its majesty out of one's poisonal funk
> for a moment into pure transcendance of self .
>
> that can also be managed in the country with a natural
> landscape which will lift you up likewise. trouble with
> the country lifting, it soon reduces itself to the inanity
> of rural life, to use Marx's phrase and you're back in
> your poisonal funk maybe even worse than in the city.
>
> Mike (childless)
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