Re: Benny’s rubbers, Enzian’s chant, Morris’s lament

[David Morris]

Psychosomatic silliness, it was.  My place is still a mess.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:28 AM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
wrote:

> What, then, shall we nail next to our front doors?
>
> Is there an equivalent of “mba-kayere” one can intone?
>
> I still think an upbeat attitude helps; also lots of Pynchon quotes;
>
> (and darn it, vitamin c, at least some Sunny D, or Mr Orange Juice to take
> the edge off! A-and that melatonin and the Lion yoga asana, and how about
> vibrational remedies, starting with music?)
> (Then too, a moderate, medicinal application of alcohol merits some
> investigation imho)
>
> But Dave, hope you’re feeling better!
>
>  New Orleans - never been there, but a friend told me years ago about her
> friend’s brother who crashed his car into a light pole downtown and when
> the cops came, he asked them to buy him a beer, and one of them walked
> across the street, bought him a beer, and gave it to him. Then they
> arrested him, but still. Not to mention the episode of Bones in New Orleans
> where things happened to Booth and Bones that they never could completely
> understand. But I digress.
>
>  A good housecleaning is one more thing to live for (doing a laborious
> chore while feeling “peine, forte et dure” can be curative: I once overcame
> a terrible migraine by reflooring a bathroom eg)
>
> and a chance to cast a ballot in November.
>
> And there is even a possibility of another Pynchon novel.
>
> While there’s life there’s hope (not to mention dope, which although it
> isn’t part of my current setup, holds some curative properties in general
> according to some whose testimony I’m not inclined to completely rule
> out)(a co-worker a few years ago, a fellow client at the halfway house in
> 1978, the counter guy at the 7-Eleven just last night...)
>
>
>
>
> David Morris wrote: On NPR this morning I heard a 20 year old woman
> describe her first
>
> caronavirus symptoms:as a soar throat day one, followed by high fever next
> day. So I started soon to feel an itch in my throat this morning. Thoughts
> of how badly my place needed cleaning when they found me dead made me
> wonder if I could clean while dying. I don't usually do drama, but I might
> be going there now.  These are dramatic times.
>
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