paranoia in the burbs

[Bruce Appelbaum]

been there (for 30+ years), done that


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Regards

Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wood jim" <jim33wood at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: paranoia in the burbs


> 
> --- Bruce Appelbaum <brucea at bestweb.net> wrote:
> > They (cap T) did that to me in Peekskill NY a few
> > years ago.  After owning
> > the property for 10 years, They decided my hedge was
> > too high and gave me
> > notice to cut it down.  The hedge, which was about
> > 6-7 feet high and
> > provided tremendous privacy on a busy street, had to
> > be cut down to 4 feet.
> > They did it because they could (and since I was a
> > landlord living in another
> > town I had little recourse -- paid the taxes but had
> > no vote).
> > 
> > They (cap T) are real bastards.
> 
> 
> You could both move to NYC, taxes are relatively low, 
> we don't have much in the way of hedges, well we have
> one outside now that I think of it, but we pay someone
> to cut it, and I doubt anyone could here the clipper
> over the traffic and the car alarms. 
> 
> My doorman tells me that They (Capital R for Rudy)
> passed a law to stop the use of horns in NYC, but 
> those damned car alarms and those damned cell-phones
> and those damned people on the internet....., 
> 
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