living East of Gilbert & other things

[Wayne Johnson]

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.
>
>
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