[lit-ideas] Re: A Second Attempt
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:52:52 -0700
Earlier, I could find the finish. Here's an ending which this evening I prefer:
> Usually at this time of the year I enjoy my walk to work for an eight a.m.
> three hour seminar. The birds are doing their thing, the weather can be
> pleasant, there's a sense of possibility and vibrancy and change in the early
> morning streets. But this week things briefly got a little strange. Lying
> on the sidewalk were a pair of men's dress socks and some underpants. I ran
> across a young woman sagging, in the fashion of the age, her trousers around
> the bottom of her bottom. The trousers were lime-green and probably
> polyester; she was a sagging version of Lee Trevino, circa 1970. And then,
> as I waited for a light to change, I stood beside a woman who was shouting at
> her phone, as people are currently wont to do, "And it's like...and I go
> like...and like...and you should like... pull his admissions file." I
> briefly wondered what kind of college might hire such a person, and then it
> came to me that her speech was a piece with everything I'd encountered thus
> far, noteworthy but not worthy of further inquiry.
>
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