[lit-ideas] Re: My demise
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:31:54 -0700
Dear Mike,
I'm sorry you're dead.
Good enough?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] My demise
>I got disconnected from the internet for 4 1/2 days because an over-paid
> telecommunications technician forgot to plug me back in when he was finished
> servicing the local pod or whatever they call it. That aggrieved me sorely.
> But what was worse was coming back on line and having to trudge through 600
> plus emails -- mostly from prescription drug dealers and cum-loving hot
> teen-age sluts -- only to find that no one had missed me. How long would it
> have taken before someone asked, "Say, whatever happened to old
> what's-his-name?" Jeez, you'd have thought that JL, at least, would have
> mentioned my passing. "He was a bad speller, but he like big words." I
> would have thought that, at the very least. JL would have OED'd the meaning
> of death. But no, my demise went unnoticed entirely. There was no David
> Ritchie elegy for me No note from Judy Evans expressing Great Britain's
> great sorrow. Nothing from Robert Paul wondering whether I was hot or cold.
> Carol Kirschenbaum never queried in her let's-not-beat-around-the-bus
> manner: "What? Are you fucking dead, or what?" Andreas never sent his
> condolences, as did no one. Had this been my death, I would have died
> alone. But that's existentialism and I no longer buy into that.
>
>
> So, hey, lucky for you, lucky for me I'm not dead. You are all relieved of
> your funereal feelings. I say let's dance.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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