JL rang the bell on Friday with 24 postings in one day. Numerous complaints and he is now on a restricted diet. Four postings per day. If I remember to let him out of his box. :-)
yrs, andreas www.andreas.com----- Original Message ----- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:41 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Post Mortem.
On Dec 4, 2007 2:28 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Mike, your touching note brought a tear; however I have it on very goodauthority from a lurker that the problem was caused by the Yakuza, you know,the problem that caused JL to be shut down, terminated in a manner of speaking.That's odd. My sources suggest that, determined to find the missing Loeb, JLembarked on a vision quest. He unwisely used dope supplied by a gang of upriver shamans, stumbled into Borges' labyrinthine library and is now soentranced that only the ghost of Grice will be able to find and release him,as soon as the thirty-seventh nuance of the third preposition in the exorcism is properly decoded. Fear not, however, the thirty-fourth nuance has already been reached. A post mortem is premature. Keep the absinthe cold. Celebrations may soon be in order. John*From:* lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mike Geary *Sent:* Monday, December 03, 2007 9:00 PM *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Post Mortem. Uh oh. Only two posts from JL today. That's not good. I hope he hasn'tdied. If so, this is his post mortem that I'm posting. JL was a good old boy as Argentines go. He is survived by his sainted mother Santa Anna Maria who put up with him. She's devoted her life to keeping St. Michael's Hall safe from Harvard students and Uraguaians. Santa Anna Maria visited Seattlewhen I was living there. I met her at the Public Market and was veryimpressed with her. Neither she nor I remember the event, but I'm sure it happened. In fact, I know it did, that's when she told me JL was Greek. I thought she meant like a frat boy, but no, she meant like a real live Greeklike person -- but only in a delusional way. He was Italian, actually.Probably Mafioso. He thought he was Greek because he always felt the need to go naked to the gymnasium. Got in a lot of embarrassing trouble for that -- and for a lot of other things we won't talk about now that he's crossedthe bar. JL only had two real loves in his life Grice and the OED. Hisfavorite pastime was posting very funny and original and informative poststo Lit-Id. He will be missed muchly. Of course it's possible that he hasn't died at all, perhaps he's just had the boom lowered on him. If so, that's a shame -- not that he's stillalive, that's not a shame -- it could lead to shame, but it's not a shame in and of itself. What's a shame is that he's having his style cramped. Whenhe returned, the list suddenly came alive, wild and unpredictable andhopelessly busy. Well, I guess if the boom has been lowered, we'll all beable to catch up on our sleep. So, JL, if you are dead, I'm really sorry guy. I thought I had some place to crash in La Plata when I do my South American tour, too bad. If you're not dead, but just being punished for being so prolific and alive, well, don't loose faith, they'll all fallasleep soon enough and those of us who enjoy the anarchy will have a picnic.Mike Geary Memphis-- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/
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