IVIV

[Mark Kohut]

I attend plist-anon meetings every week....not helping much.

This list is not life, but what is?

Dave, get better real soon...we're waiting.

--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 11:52 AM
> >
> > 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...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- "Nonetheless.  Nonetheless.  None. 
> The.  Less!" - Loudon Trott to
> Nicky Finn (in "Who's That Girl")
>