broken resolution

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 oh terrance, since you're still around: didn't you announce to show in what way 
 weissmann's rilke reading is wrong?! or did i miss something? kfl  

Terrance F. Flaherty schrieb:
> It is of course justifiable for the man that draws up
> reports, adds up figures, answers business letters, follows
> the movement of the stock exchange, to feel an agreeable
> sense of superiority when he says to you with a sneer: "It's
> all very well for you; you have nothing better to do." But
> he would be no less contemptuous, would be even more
> so
.were your recreation writing Hamlet or Merely reading
> it. Wherein busy men show a lack of forethought. For the
> disinterested culture which seems to them a comic pastime of
> idle people when they find them engaged in it is, they ought
> to reflect, the same as that which, in their own profession,
> brings to the fore men who may not be better judges or
> administrators then themselves but before whose rapid
> advancement they bow their heads, saying, "it appears he's
> extremely well read, a most distinguished individual." 
>
> 			Marcel Proust    A la recherche du temps perdu
>
> Or was it Goncharov's Oblomov?
>
> Proust does more than TV can
> To justify a slothful man.
>
> Ever see Al Bundy on vacation? He ropes off the couch and
> the tube and refuses to acknowledge anyone that comes into
> his vacation space. Thank Zeus I can read a book during a
> riot, big family small house and subways I guess. 
>
> Back to fishing,
>
> Terrance 
>  
>
>
>
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > Every year for the last five years I've made a New Year's resolution to
> > break my addiction to the p-list. It's too time-consuming. I neglect
> > family and other duties on account of it (I'm always  being told).
> > And I agree--the p-list is bad for me. However my resolution to
> > quit never lasts more than a day or two. I have observed and talked
> > to others who have had the strength  and the resolve to kick the habit.
> > I have seen them go on to lead happy productive lives. I feel their
> > joy but know it cannot be my own own. I have come to recognize at this
> > point in my life that I now longer am even trying to fight the addiction.
> > The damn thing is just too compelling, the dependency too great. The only
> > hope left is that the p-list will somehow evaporate from the face of the
> > earth. But I know this is an idle hope. It will not happen. It has gone on
> > too long. The p-list is indestructible. And I am doomed.
> > 
> >                                 P.