[AGL] Fan Letter

[Michael Eisenstadt]

thanks

Mike

----- 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
>
> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
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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.
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>> it is very dangerous to live in Xanadu if your poisonal life
>> is not keeping up with what is available out there.
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>> 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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