TRP as Presence

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

(Dr) johnny m writes:
 
>                                     I have been thinking that all of us harbor the 
> secret thought. more a visceral feeling, at least for me, that TRP is--here--somehow, 
> among us, like Jesus on the road to wherever, or as Eliot writes about (Wasteland?) 
> that phenomenon, also noted by soldiers in foxholes, the sense that there is an 
> unseen but felt companion lurking nearby.  Does Tommy haunt us like the Holy 
> Grail?  Are we Apostles awaiting the descent of the flickering tongue of fire? Or 
> doubting Thomases doubting  Thomas,  looking to probe the wounds with our 
> own hands? What difference would it make it he were--here?  Are we all, with one 
> or two synapses at least, partly talking to him (resisting the temptation to type: 
> Him) when we talk to each other.

Why so biblical, johnny m? Have you decided that we're all fans here, 
looking for the ruggled messiah? Or is it the nature of the medium, 
of the beast, of the list, to exist as such? as a congregation? 

> But, speaking of tongues of fire, the real question is: suppose TRP announces 
> himself, sez, hey, I've been lurking for awhile and I'd like, in this my first post, to 
> weigh in w/ this opinion .  .  .  . Who would be the first to FLAME him? (I'm 
> betting  STEELY).

Maybe steely would be the only one not to flame him.... 
Question: What's the difference between the Church of TRP, a place of 
devotion to, and reflection of, HIS works - and this list, which 
quite often seems unable to believe that he exists at all, never mind 
all that missing genuflecting.... 

h(burning-rooibos-bush)g
hag at iafrica.com