IVIV

[Michael Bailey]

geez Dave,

hope everything turns out ok!

let us know how it goes...
whether you pull victory from the jaws of defeat,
or compromise from the jaws of disaster, I think
I speak for many of us in saying we have a lot of faith in you!

Anybody with intelligence and a kind heart is disturbed
at the things going on in the world - remember you are one of the good guys

looking forward to more from you on IV



we all have felt that big chill and feel for you, big guy!



Mike

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> I apparently DIDN'T send this to the List.  I'd hoped to catch up this
> weekend, if nothing else, but instead have by and large been making
> one last round of the little things I enjoy here, plus wasting a lot
> of time depressed, panicked, what have you.  I have been advised to
> check into a hospital for "observation."  I should probably do this,
> but I also have something which could prove to be the biggest
> immediate disaster, at any rate, of my life, if not to date, at least
> in some time.  One of those couple/few things I'd simply rather not
> have survived to face, albeit apocalyptic only @ personal scale ...
>
> Please forgive me, I stupidly allowed all this to culminate @ the
> worst possible time for me here (at very least).  If I may make what
> may or may not be one last request here, it's to go back, think about
> what you expected, maybe hat you wanted, even, and what you found
> instead, then found out along the way, and might have found since.
> For example.  Think about where IV stands in relation to the rest of
> the oeuvre, continuities, repetitions, revelations, on the one hand,
> disjunctions, novelties,complications on the other ...
>
> I short, keep reading, keep talking.  Thank you all for your efforts,
> not to mention yr companionship, friendship, even.  I hope to be back,
> t any rate ...
>
> KCBC.  U.s.w., et soforhiam.  Now, everybody---
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:03 AM
> Subject: Re: IVIV
> To:
>
>
> While we obviously never REALLY finished reading ANYTHING here--and
> never really can, the only way we might have chosen texts more open to
> rereading and (re)interpretation was to be a Bible study group--I find
> myself sadder than I've ever been to see a "formal" (insofar as
> anything is here) group reading, at least, approach its end, even if I
> hope--or had hoped, at any rate ..--to prolong tat epilogue, to stave
> off that denouement, whatever ...
>
> A-and maybe I'll still be able to, but ...
>
> ... but I also feel guiltier than ever for not really participating,
> not in the least because I  kicked this one off, perhaps too early and
> @ too quick a pace, and then went by and large absconditus, always
> hoping, at least, to catch up. And now that i find myself perhaps wit
> the the time, at least ...
>
> First off, I wan to thank you all for being as truly amongst my friend
> as anyone I know if the offline world these past, waht, well, several
> years, to say the least.  These couple of centuries.  Believe it or
> not, be appalled by this or not, this has been by and lare the most
> productive venture of the past __ (?--I'm afraid to look it up) years
> of my life.  And these days, it has been, more than ever, what has
> kept me going, despite ...
>
> Well, maybe it's time I let y'all know just What's Been Going On these
> past several months.  First off, Inherent Vice was, until recently
> (or, at any rate, ca. Halloween or so), been all that's kept e going
> through homelessness.  Straight up no home on the streets
> homelessness.  Which, for the record,w as NOT a financial issue (not
> that I'm financially well off, at least, hardly, but, well, I do--did,
> perhaps, depending ...--have a job), I just, well ...
>
> ... well, caught between a rock and a hard place, I of course got
> crushed, so ...
>
> ... so now I'm typing @ y'all from a bona fide, beceilinged and
> beplumbinged Residence.  Even if I'm now wearing prescription socks
> and walking with a cane ...
>
> i also became a crippled American over the past year, likely an
> epiphenonmenon of homelessness, but ...
>
> ... but it's when I (inevitably?) lose my job (IF  do, but ..) that
> things will get REALLY bad.  I ca't eve BEGIN to speculate, not nwo,
> at any rate, not without shaking uncontrollably, but ...
>
> Well, thanks again, and if I'm not around, somebody, please ...
>



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