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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2007, 11:29:17 AM »
I need someone to show me the things in life that I cant find
I cant see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but its too late
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2007, 12:10:13 PM »
You can hang me in a bottle like a cat
Let the crows pick me clean but for my hat
Where the wailing of a baby
Meets the footsteps of the dead
We're all mad here
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2007, 12:16:30 PM »
One year I had an english class with Mrs Brown, Julie?..Im not sure..Stans wife....anyway, on the first class of the fall she asked us what book we read over the summer. I said I read a Vonnegut book, and thought it was pretty cool. She told me that he wasn't a real writer...and likened his work to a comic book. Ridiculed me infront of the others who said they read other books..
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« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2007, 12:33:57 PM »
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One year I had an english class with Mrs Brown, Julie?..Im not sure..Stans wife....anyway, on the first class of the fall she asked us what book we read over the summer. I said I read a Vonnegut book, and thought it was pretty cool. She told me that he wasn't a real writer...and likened his work to a comic book. Ridiculed me infront of the others who said they read other books..


  Her name was Laylee or Layla.  They lived in a house on Richardson.  I stopped by looking for Stan one warm May or June day.   She came out of the house in an india print dress, barefoot.  She put one foot up on the top two by four that held the pickets of the picket fence that defined the small front yard.  She had a beer in her hand.  I told her I was looking for Stan.  She said Stan would not be back for three or four hours but I was welcome to come in.  I would be surprised if they are still married.

Kurt is easy to read.  So is Hemmingway. Short clear cleanly constructed sentences define the style.  I hear papa stole it from Gertrude Stein. I like to imitate it sometimes.  Sometimes when I think about drinking in cuba, I like short sentences.
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« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2007, 06:13:41 PM »
Her name is Lili (Lee-Lee) and they're still married.
So much for your fantasy!
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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2007, 04:48:38 AM »
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Her name is Lili (Lee-Lee) and they're still married.
So much for your fantasy!



   I am surprised.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2007, 05:25:33 AM »
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Her name is Lili (Lee-Lee) and they're still married.
So much for your fantasy!


I heard that LD and DD got divorced but then remarried at the Mansion. Is this true? He was a strange bird way back in the day so am not surprised about the allegations.  Am surprised that Hyde tolerated it for years!
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2007, 06:11:22 AM »
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One year I had an english class with Mrs Brown, Julie?..Im not sure..Stans wife....anyway, on the first class of the fall she asked us what book we read over the summer. I said I read a Vonnegut book, and thought it was pretty cool. She told me that he wasn't a real writer...and likened his work to a comic book. Ridiculed me infront of the others who said they read other books..


I got some of that during my first seminar at Hyde. There were about fifty of us in the lounge of the union and Anne Legg was the facilitator. The whole business of sharing my private life before a group of total strangers was unappealing in the extreme but everyone was doing it and majority rules. I don't remember what I said but as soon as it was over Anne started trembling violently and repeating my words in a cracking falsetto. Then she sat back and actually laughed at her performance, her bosom rocking up and down, and that was the signal for the rest of the room to join in the merriment.    

Mike
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2007, 06:19:45 AM »
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...and that was the signal for the rest of the room to join in the merriment.


Scary how the crowd only felt comfortable following the designated signals, eh?
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2007, 06:32:43 AM »
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...and that was the signal for the rest of the room to join in the merriment.

Scary how the crowd only felt comfortable following the designated signals, eh?


It would be interesting to enumerate and analyze the ways in which Hyde turns a fresh crop of decent folk into a lynch mob.

Mike
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2007, 06:48:09 AM »
Ugh.  Being lynched is an experience I'm altogether too familiar with.
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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2007, 06:58:46 AM »
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Ugh.  Being lynched is an experience I'm altogether too familiar with.


Share it.
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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2007, 07:02:41 AM »
:oops:   HA!!   :lol:
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« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2007, 07:03:17 AM »
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Ugh.  Being lynched is an experience I'm altogether too familiar with.

Share it.


Of course, you're under no obligation here. But it could be healing, and altruistic into the bargain...
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