living East of Gilbert & other things

[Michael Eisenstadt]

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.
> >
> >
> >
>