The Sadness of America

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Well there are some evenings...as I'm sitting on my back porch and watching
the last rays of sunlight fading over the horizon...that I'll I find myself
pining for those good old days...back when the chrome was thick and the
women were straight. But then I get to thinking how we had all that cold war
stuff back then....and man that ain't no way to live.

On 10/8/05, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> One reason I loved America when I lived there was that it
> was so immensely sad. When I left my Austinite home on
> Joe Sayers and was suddenly confronted by the miracle mile
> of Burnet Road, the melancholy of it all almost crushed me
> sometimes. Pynchon can convey this sorrow very well.
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> Heikki
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