Shrine of Memory

[Frances Morey]

Speaking of "good speakers", "clean well lighted places," and "great
drawings", I went to hear Dave Hickey on campus last night and I was
enthralled with his erudition. He is a monumental intellect and is totally
interesting and entertaining. It was a rare treat.
Frances


On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:38:44 +0000, telebob x wrote:

>  My Fellow Ghettans-
>  
>  I am not going anywhere, Melvin Laird or no Melvin Laird.
>  
>  During this latest whirl of onagain offagain ism, I realized how most of
you 
>  exist somewhere in your own little 'shrine of memory' (to use a Hickey 
>  phrase) somewhere in my brain.  We may be a 'virtual' community, but we
are 
>  more than that...dear friends, we almost all knew each other BEFORE there

>  was an Internet and time and distance separated us into our own
microcosms.  
>  We were an 'actual' community at one time. That is part of why I stick 
>  around.  At one point in my life I chose many of our membership as
friends, 
>  (or for some inexplicable reason they chose me), I still feel that way. 
The 
>  discourse we enjoy on this list each morning fills an hour almost the way

>  our old bullshit sessions over coffee at the Texas Union used to do. I do

>  miss Belmer, and wish some of our more creative and whacked out souls
were 
>  contributing, but that might make the volume almost impossible to take.
Too 
>  many of us are gone already (Joe Brown, Tony Bell, Lieuen, Byron Black,
Win 
>  Pratt, and so on), but perhaps heaven IS what survives of us in the
memories 
>  of those we've known. If that is true, then let us be careful with one 
>  another. We are all more fragile than we think.
>  I do not know Don Laird, I do not know how many of us do. The world is
full 
>  of ideas, but just because I do not share many of his is no reason to
boot 
>  him.  To boot him because he does not have a cubbyhole in my memory of
time 
>  and place is another matter. If it were my decision, he would be ignored 
>  (and booted) as easily as I pass a William F. Buckley column in the
paper, 
>  however, if Don is a friend of one of one of my friends, then I have to
give 
>  him some cachet. I respect my friends, even the ones I think are insane.
So, 
>  I put myself in neutral on the issue.  I just don't need to read what he
has 
>  to say, and he should stay. (Besides, Jon needs someone who thinks his
ideas 
>  are tenable...ooh Masked Meanie you did it again.)
>  
>  And while you are up, could you bring me a cinnamon roll?
>  
>  Hey look, here comes Philip Trussell, wait a minute, that's the ghost of
Joe 
>  Hill....
>  
>  telebob
>  
>  " i dreamed a dream and it made me sad
>  thinkin of myself, and the first few friends i had..."
>  
>  
>  
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