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[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 6, 2009, at 2:21 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> The Great Gadfly will fly again.

See! I knew it !

> Thanks Robin. I did learn much from
> you and I appreicate it. You are a Catskill Eagle. Higher than the
> other birds, even though they sour.

If you say so . . .

My first exposure to the Big Dick was in 1967. Peter Bergman's "Radio  
Free Oz", broadcast on KRLA ran Melville's finest through their audio  
Cuisinart producing "Thirty Years under the Whale" as the result.  
Ahab, through various nautical mishaps, managed to turn his entire  
body into wood save his head—and that's gonna be the next thing to get  
replaced. The ship was falling apart as soon as the crew discovered  
that the rigging was made of hemp—cue the crewmembers to sing: "Yo Ho  
Ho and a bottle of Rope."

     	From somewhere deep in my memory, I heard a snatch of some
	half-remembered  conversation between a construction worker
	and a bartender at a bar in Colorado.  The construction man
	was explaining why he shouldn’t have another drink: “You can’t
	wallow with the pigs at night and then soar with the eagles in
	the morning,” he said.

  	   I thought briefly on this, then shrugged it off.  My own situation
	was totally different, I felt.  In about three hours, I was supposed
	to be down on the docks with my camera and tape recorder to
	spend another day on one of those goddamn boats.

  	   No, I thought, that geek in Colorado had it all wrong.  The real
	problem is how to wallow with the eagles at night and then soar
	with the pigs in the morning.

--Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt