[lit-ideas] Re: Global Warming Hysteria
- From: carolkir@xxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:48:12 -0700
Must be Corvallis, Oregon. Bernard Malamud taught at the state college
there in the 70s, shortly before hating the place in print. Which
novel was that? I forget. Been a while. Corvallis isn't all that cool,
weather-wise, if I recall correctly. (David? Robert?) The Oregon coast
is marvelous--wild and gorgeous, and now somewhat expensive, though
not compared to any part of the California coast. There's not much
there, but it's a lovely place to be melancholy. I misspent a fair
amount of my youth there.
As for anyplace in Arizona....One must be mad or on a mountaintop,
which is the same thing, imo.
Judy, I sure hope I can drive soon after thumb surgery. I'll have to
drive home from the in-office surgery! Sounds barbaric. This is
"inijury" stuff--my top thumb joint broke off (kind of looks like
that) and needs to be fused (pronounced "shoozed," by the Chinese
doctor) to the main thumb from within. Just forget there's a
nail...Sorry for too much information. The wrists? End of RA, nothing
to be done, it's not RSI--depends which doc I listen to. Different
diagnosis each time. Last year I supposedly had carpal tunnel in both
wrists. Today, nope. Nothing like that. Why do I feel less than
comforted by the medical community? Still, I'm letting them stick a
screw into my thumb.
Now for 97% humidity. Horrible, yes, but you don't have it year
'round. I'd gladly take the weather on the East Coast over this
barbecued smog, particularly if I can take it in a rent-stabilized
apartment. From Fresno, the ocean is a few hours away. No view, except
of the bay from Amtrak, traveling 4 hours northeast.
Smilla. Couldn't read the thing, but the movie is fine without the
sound. Has anyone had the same blah experience trying to read _The
Alienist_? Someone recommended it to me recently. Cute conceit using
Teddy Roosevelt as a character, but after a dreary 150 pages, I simply
gave up. CSI doesn't work for me in print, especially not with a mock
Victorian narrative. Yet this lengthy, painfully unreadable novel was
on the bestseller list, I hear.
Carol,
slowly making her way out the door today
On 7/14/08, Judith Evans <judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As you know, David,. Google UK can return somewhat different results; my top
> hit for Cornwallis Oregon was
>
> "Footballers Born in Cornwallis, Oregon" !
>
> (One. Frank Ramsey.)
>
> But I rather think I blundered and the page recommended Corvallis,
>
> Judy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:51 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Global Warming Hysteria
>
>
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> good idea. (I can't take the heat either.) There's a US web page
>>> that tells you where you'd like to live (run by realtors, I assume)
>>> that gave me as top choice Cornwallis, Oregon, with somewhere in
>>> New Mexico second. ? !
>>>
>>>
>> I thought I'd spend an idle moment finding out where Cornwallis is.
>> The closest I can find on the web is a German immigrant's confusion
>> of Corvalis and Cornwallis
>>
>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mdtaffet/MOSES/
>> peteramoses_letter.html
>>
>> I can't put my hand on my copy of "Oregon Place Names," which
>> suggests perhaps that tidying up should be moved a little higher up
>> the to-do list.
>>
>>
>
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