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[Michael Bailey]

>
> 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 ...

yeah, you're not alone in that
-- I take an inordinate amount of solace from the p-list,
embarrassingly so at times

>
> 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 ...
>

see, here is my cognitive dissonance:
my mental picture of Monroe is this hip librarian dude,
darting off to DJ gigs at night, posting from coffeeshops and friends's
couches.  It actually sounds kind of enviable.

Now you're telling me I should instead be feeling Schadenfreude?


>
> ... 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 ...

that "observation" at the hospital, if taking that time
won't automatically lose you your job - sounds like it might
give you the time to catch your breath...

risking a brickbat from malignd, got to tell you,
I get real relief from bach's rescue remedies at times...

or remember the Salinger story where the guy didn't really experience relief
until he carried around a copy of a Blake poem "like a poultice"...

>
> Well, thanks again, and if I'm not around, somebody, please ...
>

hey, be around...




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