[lit-ideas] Re: THE FARM: A TIME TRAVELOGUE (long)

 
In a message dated 7/30/2005 3:12:50 PM Central Daylight Time,  
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I don't  know why I did this except perhaps to conclude an 
important part of my  life.  Have no guilt about deleting it.


HI,
Well, being the materialistic soul that I am <g>, my temptation was  not to 
delete it after reading it, but to reprint it on very pretty paper with  some 
cute fonts, lovely pictures of Time Past...bind it in some sort of light  
permabound and and then place a 'Welcome Home' on the front cover (from  Mikey, 
of 
course)...and sell it in the local area convenience stores, grocery  stores, 
etc. 
 
I might even be able to sell it in the area which my parents bought a  
farm--and *I* had always thought it funny that the most conservative people in  
the 
USA would leave the East Coast [where civilization is] to raise their family  
in the middle of nowhere [my cousins used to think we had Native Americans  
living down the street...we did kind of play with them when we visited them  on 
a at-least-once-a-year trip back East...]
 
It was a rather timeless article sure to pierce people's hearts.  So,  why 
not give it the opportunity to pierce their pocketbooks, too.  Then  they can 
share it with their kids and grandkids someday...
 
(my son wants to make sure that I don't sell my share of the farm--and  wants 
to buy from all his cousins the part that is going to be sold and divided  
amongst them...NOT that we will ever live there, mind...)
 
Oh, and then after figuring out (using the Claritas website--thanks Andreas  
for the clustering information--Mikey, I'd love to know the zipcode/postal 
code  of that area!) other similar spots ... we'd sell it in all of those  
places.
 
and then schedule a trip for Mikey on Oprah so he could read it aloud to  her 
millions of viewers and all of those who wished that mom/dad would have  
moved them from the city to a farm--even for a few years--could know what the  
experience would have been like...
 
and then (here's me trying to go deep in that moral code  thingy], Lit-Ideas 
could make at least $1 per booklet [with sales of at  least one million, of 
course he will be sharing the $$ he would be making with  all of us so as to 
participate in some sort of grand party like the Hackers  are having...after 
all, 
the anthropologist in that article said that even  virtual buds need 
sociability)
 
Not really digging within her moral code at the moment (or, at least,  not 
Andy's <g> Can one person's moral code be different from  another's?),
Marlena in Missouri

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