Re: Why Time Begins on Opening Day


Subject: Re: Why Time Begins on Opening Day
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 15:33:41 EDT


>Mattis, ignore Scottie, and enjoy your refound youthfulness. Have you
>changed drug plans recently? Tim, what a classic post, with the obsidian

   Ah! The voice of age and experience, but I wonder if watching the
   BlueJays trying to emulate the Yankees has not affected you eyes.
   Refound youthfulness, eh?

   I might have hoped that you would understand that the experience I
   described was a newly and dearly reached maturity, a precipitate
   which only coalesced from the addition of a rare reagent into an
   already supersaturated solution. The completion of one corner of
   a crossword puzzle with the addition of an arcane word, say "quixotic",
   to complement the clues that had already been solved. Yes, I expected
   the bananafish fry to condescendingly shake their heads and say, here's
   another Lester Burnham getting in touch with his inner teenager, but it
   seems that I was overly optimistic to expect (or had too high opinion
   of my own prose) anyone but perhaps Tim (and Scottie, though the
   harpies follow) to be able to follow. And to tell the truth, who knows
   if it worth following, I am not that conceited.

   I have an unfinished post about Hapsworth sitting around, that I will
   probably never complete. But the gist of is, that seeing Seymour as
   a child-like adult, we might expect him to be an even more child-like
   child, no? More intelligent than the average camper of course, but
   with the same *niceness* as the foot-kisser we know and love. But
   did you notice it just isn't so? It seems that while we all cherish
   the purity of spirit that seems so natural to a Charles, Esme,
   Sybil, Ramona, Lionel, there is still Seymour's purity (if we accept
   for a moment his supposed saintliness), more profound still. And
   only coming after a lot of work. I used to keep a clipping from an old
   box of Wheaties (athletically targeted breakfast cereal):

   "The best exercise is that which exercises the heart".

   all the best, ("Love" is just too hard to express in just four letters)
   Mattis
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