[AGL] alienation and sense of impending doom while living in Xanadu

[michelemason]

Having children takes one to a place that is unique because each one is 
different. Therefore each relationship is different and carries its own 
baggage. Occasionally, a set of circumstances makes it better to 
distance oneself for a time. It is sheer philosophy for one who is 
childless to make assumptions. Where as reality requires some difficult 
and often misunderstood decisions and then one has to find the guts to 
follow through. It isn't easy.  mm

On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> according to literature, the average man/woman lives a life
> of silent dispair.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> Mike (childless)
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