Re: Lay on, Macduff...

just don't agree that a salinger listserv is the place
to be posting asides better suited for a men's
lockerroom or wherever little boys who haven't grown
up congregate.

kim

--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Ehm, it's one thing for an old woman to be an old
> woman. It's another
> thing for a 20-30 year old male or female to be an
> old woman :).
>
> They're even more of an old woman than old women :).
>
> I had one very old grandmother who was remarkable
> and another who was,
> pitiably, an old woman.
>
> Jim
>
> Will Hochman wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Indeed. There's a surprising number of old
> > > women to be found in both sexes.
> > >
> > > Scottie B.
> >
> > Sorry to be so sincere...I know much of what is
> posted is joking, but
> > some of the best human qualities I've experienced,
> I have found in
> > abundance in people Scottie might see as "old
> women." I had dinner
> > last night with "E." She's 81. Her 92 year old
> husband, a brilliant
> > man, is suffering from Altziemher's (sp) disease
> and spends his days
> > in his park ave apt in a hospital bed uncertain
> about most things he
> > perceives. The strength and wisdom of E was
> incredible. We played
> > chess and she didn't give up. She doesn't walk
> well, she has no
> > children and sick siblings, and she didn't
> complain to me, not once.
> > E simply didn't lose her heart, head and spirit to
> the kinds of
> > thinks that humble most of us. If I have a small
> fraction of what E
> > has in her, I'm better for it and so are those who
> listen closely to
> > the words and deeds of "old women." will
> >
> > PS: E lives at 1120 park ave...just a door or two
> away from where JDS
> > used to live.
> >
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