[lit-ideas] Re: My demise
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:35:24 -0400
You'll notice that I wasn't even mentioned in the people who should have
noticed his absence. Well, shit. Talk about going unnoticed.
Erin
Toronto
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> I've been off-line because of computer deaths, vehicle deaths & accidents,
>
> broken contacts, and ill children. You'll notice I'm now reading my
> September
> 5 mail. No, we're all interchangable, Mike; no one notices a thing.
>
>
> Julie Krueger
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] My demise Date:
> 10/5/04 5:24:25 PM Central Daylight Time From: _atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (mailto:atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
> 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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