AtD: Heart of Darkness

[David Morris]

Geography and Destiny?
Ebony and Ivory?

Columbus OH is a delusional dry old maid.  It used to desire the Ocean.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ituP5X7kP64&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DituP5X7kP64

I went back to Ohio but my city was gone
There was no train station; there was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared; all my favorite places
My city had been pulled down - reduced to parking spaces
Way to go, Ohio

I went back to Ohio but my family was gone
I stood on the back porch, there was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories slowly swirled past like the wind through the trees
Way to go, Ohio

I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside had been paved down the middle by a government
that had no pride
The farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls
And muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Way to go, Ohio.
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> Not small, I'd say.  Big.
>
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, rich wrote:
>
>> some small aside about christopher columbus or The Ohio State University?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> and Midwesterner Horst Loeffler of BE 'as emotional as a
>>> grain elevator", sez Maxine's voice....
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:11 AM
>>> Subject: AtD: Heart of Darkness
>>>
>>> "Merle understood that he must never if he could avoid it set foot within
>>> the limits of this place again. 'If the U.S. was a person,' he later
>>> became
>>> fond of saying, 'and it *sat down*, Columbus, Ohio would instantly be
>>> plunged into darkness.'"
>>>
>>> http://www.shorpy.com/node/16283?size=_original#caption
>>>
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