[lit-ideas] Re: Global Warming Hysteria
- From: "Judith Evans" <judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:11:17 +0100
(Margaret Thatcher will get a State Funeral, I may flee the country...)
The Oregon coast
is marvelous--wild and gorgeous
sounds wonderful, a bit like parts of Cornwall, perhaps
This is
"inijury" stuff--
(yuck description deleted) OUCH.
Driving back after the op, well, I don't know. Can't you get someone to
drive you back?
Still have Recession Gloom. Must be worse over there but we're more
vulnerable.
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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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
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