antw. mddm/: famous last words

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on 10/4/02 5:24 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> I've read The Crying of Lot 49 biennially since the
> late 70s, the same copy over and over kept in the
> greasy pocket of my tattered too-small winndrbreaker,
> standing in subzero blizzard conditions waiting for
> the open-air, mule-drawn wagon that takes us to the
> coal mine every morning (at 4:00 a.m.) and brings us
> home at midnight.  Without the luxury of so much as a
> candle ...
> 
> --- Joanne Manees <jmanees at law.miami.edu> wrote:
>> I've read MD four times, standing at the bus stop,
>> as I am too poor to own a car.
> 
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You were lucky to have a mule!

I had to harness my grandmother, even after she had passed away, flog her
for eighteen hours and then receive corporal punishment for not showing up
at the salt mines at all. All this while reading a bad French version of V
translated by my seventh grade shop teacher. I tell ya, kids these days.....

Joe