Time Frame I.V.

[Ian Livingston]

My family had just moved to the redwood forest.  I was much too busy to be
sidetracked by some stupid moon landing.  There were thousands of acres of
rainforest to explore.  But my dad was visiting his mom in a dusty little
California valley town.  My grandma was a locally famous talker.  She never
stopped.  Amazing to listen to how earnestly she could go on about nothing.
But at the moment of the landing, my dad related, she shut up and he didn't
notice for a few moments.  When he did notice, he saw a tear on her cheek
and asked what was wrong.  She said, "Oh, it just doesn't seem so long ago I
heard about a couple crazy kids who said they flew at some place called
Kitty Hawk."

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:13 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> For years I hung on to a card I sent away for from an ad on the back of a
> cereal box, entitling me to a seat on the first Pan-Am flight to the moon.
>  Lost it during one of numerous moves.  Of course the now-defunt Pan-Am's
> not about to honor the card anyway.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> >Sent: Dec 5, 2008 1:16 PM
> >To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> >Cc: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: RE: Time Frame I.V.
> >
> >
> >
> >I was 8½ and sleeping alone in a tent in our backyard when dad woke me up.
> >"Heikki, man is just about to walk on the moon." It was approx. five am in
> >Finland. The sun was shining. We went to the living room and, in beautiful
> >black and white, watched Armstrong climb down from Eagle. An interpreter
> >translated his words. The most interesting part was to see him bounce up
> >and down. After an hour or so, Aldrin having joined Armstrong, I thought
> >I've had enough and went back sleeping.
> >
> >In Finland Shell was giving away "space coins". When you filed a space
> >coin a bit, you could insert it into the slot of a pinball machine at a
> >cafe in my home town. The machine got mixed up and gave you 12 free plays.
> >It was great as long as it lasted.
> >
> >
> >Heikki
> >
> >On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Henry wrote:
> >
> >> Laura, I too was at a camp that didn't let us watch the moon
> landing/walk.  Huh!
> >>
> >> I was supposed to be the first asstronaut on the moon, GD it!
> >>
> >> Speaking of summer camps, any other P-listers attend Ford Foundation
> sponsored for supposedly gifted kids SAAC or go to work-camp Lincoln Farm?
> >>
> >> Henry Mu
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Laura
> >>
> >> My mother was a political activist, so I got taken to Ban the Bomb,
> Anti-war and Women's Lib demos.  Being born in '57, I didn't have any other
> exciting '60-ish lifestyle experiences 'til I got to college.
> >>
> >> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the '60s as The Space Age.  I was in
> sleepaway camp when the astronauts landed on the moon.  The damn counselors
> wouldn't let us stay up to watch it on TV.  I remember weeping in my bunk
> and fantasizing that the lunar landing would be called off at the last
> minute:  "Wait, we've decided there's no way we can walk on the moon without
> bringing along an 11-year-old girl, whom we'll pick at random..."
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >From: Robin Landseadel
> >> >
> >> >I was born in 1955 to parents that were absolute creatures of the
> >> >sixties.
> >> >Both my mother and father were heavily involved in the civil rights
> >> >activities
> >> >of the 60's [part one], my mother got considerably freakier and was
> >> >leading
> >> >the charge to the second half of the sixties [part two.] My mother is
> >> >somewhere
> >> >between Frenesi and Zoyd [but closer to Frenesi] and continued her
> >> >radical
> >> >ways well through the nineties. So I guess I am just a po'mo boy,
> >> >though my
> >> >story's seldom told. In any case I'll get back to the Cucumber Lounge
> >> >and
> >> >enviorns in just a moment. "It's just this little chromium switch
> >> >here, I don't
> >> >know why you people are so superstitious. . ."
> >> >
> >> >On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:54 AM, David Morris wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I too understand, Henry, but I grabbed as much of the era as I could
> >> >> at that young age. . .
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20081206/f4800502/attachment-0001.html>