TX, CA, and TP

[Richard Ryan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:50 PM
> To: himself at richardryan.com; prozak at anus.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: TX, CA, and TP
>
>
>
> --- Himself <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> > As a native Texan and a former Austinite (and a grandson of the
> Republic, by
> God!) who has traveled around most of the US, I can safely attest
> that Texas is
> the most climatologically diverse of all the states, with the possible
> exception of California.
>
> I generally dislike Texans.  It's because I have to deal with
> them when they
> visit New Orleans on vacation.  They generally believe that the
> world, my world
> in particular, belongs to them, and that I'm a visitor.
>

Ah, but we Texans behave the same boorish way in Paris ;-)


> But Austin...   Austin is to Texas what New Orleans is to the
> United States.
> Have you ever heard of Hippie Hollow?


Not only have I heard of Hippie Hollow, I've shed my clothes and bathed my
loins there!