the best is yet to come

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

David Morris sighs: " .... a major factor in the decline of this list."

 this seems indeed to be a major factor in the mythology of this list: it was so 
 much nicer in the good old days.... in the late 1990s, when people like you and 
 i started to post stuff here, it was the same: no week passed without this 'i 
 wish back the old times when yx was still here and we had all those meaningful 
 discussions'-refrain. well, sometimes when i cannot avoid seeing my office at 
 the university, i spend hours with surfing the archives, and you know what? 
 it's never been much better or much worse than it is these days. in terms of  
 content-quality, that is. sure, our personal list-spring we can only have once, 
 yet the pynchon-list keeps rocking till the music is over.... and then it  
 hasn't been that bad recently: there are some new posters, and - all in all -  
 the mddm has been an acceptable group-read (better than the two before, imo).  
 this club, full of exciting ideas and cool people, is the only one i always  
 come back to. and it's good to have an international place for political  
 discussion (- if not we: who else could debate these things freely?). true,  
 orange october sun on the trees is making me mild, and since some things can  
 better be sung, here come frank & splank with a song written by coleman/leigh:

                         
                           THE BEST IS YET TO COME

                 out of the tree of life, i just picked me a plumb
                  you came along and everything started to hum 
                still it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come

                 the best is yet to come and won't that be fine
             you think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine

                      wait till the warm-up is underway
                        wait till our lips have met 
                      wait till you see that sunshine day
                         you ain't seen nothin' yet

                 the best is yet to come and won't that be fine
              the best is yet to come, come the day that you're mine

                        come the day that you're mine
                         i'm gonna teach you to fly 
                         we've only tasted the wine 
                        we're gonna drain that cup dry

             wait till your charms are right for these arms to surround
            you think you've flown before but you ain't left the ground 

                      wait till you're locked in my embrace 
                         wait till i hold you near  
                      wait till you see that sunshine place  
                       there ain't nothin' like it here  

                 the best is yet to come, and won't that be fine
              the best is yet to come, come the day that you're mine 


 

greetings: kai  



                      ps: although the danger of collective narcolepsy          
                      cannot be debated away, i'm sure that this list will even 
                      survive the slsl.