Re: fire eater

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:15:43 -0700 

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> As one remarked: `You don't start worrying about anything very much until
> they start using live
> ammunition.'

Have you ever seen the film My Dinner With Andre?

> They all looked back on their time of war as the crucially formative period
> of their life.  And they had all, in their time, enjoyed their share of
> those other `intense experiences' you mention - fucking women, listening to
> the St Matthew Passion....

Uh, I actually didn't mention any specific "intense experiences," but since
you did, "fucking women"  is about as sociopathological a misnomer/perspective
for an intense experience as you can get. "Making love to another person"
could be considered an intense experience, however. (Do you drop these things
blithely on the Jane Austen list, too, and then repost the entire post when
everyone on the list just ignores it out of lack of relevance/embarrassment?)
Of course, you are in Scotland. I remember when I lived in Glasgow and was at
a house party, a chap came up to me and said "Och aye, if ye see something
(sic) ye fancy, just jump on her." And once when I was walking downtown, near
the Tower Records on a Saturday night, two lads on one side of the street
hollered over to two females on the other side of the street: "Oi! Ye fancy a
fook, then?" And the females actually answered and, uh, kept the conversation
going. When I came back to Seattle for the holidays and was at a bar I noticed
that if Seattle men were in Glasgow they'd practically be considered girls.
Then when I got back to Glasgow I thought about Seattle men being there and
realized that if it were a choice I had to make, I'd rather be considered a
girl from Seattle than a man from Glasgow.

>         That wasn't Tarzan.  (Note spelling, Malcolm.)

Thanks, Teach'. Sorry but it was first thing in the morning and I thought I'd
spelt it wrong. So when are you going to post the mid-semester grades?

Malcy L. (As Klaus, my housemate in Kelvinside used to call me)