Re: letter to Tim
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:40:19 -0400
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 09:01:14PM +0100, Scottie Bowman wrote:
> '... Or to put it more succinctly, I haven't behaved like
> an infant since my early days of infancy ...'
>
> I guess Tim, this says it all. In my own case, I'm not
> just entering my second childhood. I never left it.
> The age gap between us is evidently just too great.
Ah, finally you've given me a belly laugh. Genuinely! Thanks -- I
needed one.
> At the risk of blundering on into even more offensiveness,
> may I say how intrigued I am by your broken ankle.
> When Will (or will) asked you to send us his regards
> where was it? I can't believe you went on to lunch
> after a thing like that. And yet the exchanging of such
> courtesies in the ambulance sounds like gallantry well
> beyond the call of duty.
Oh, Will was more than a gentleman; it happened on my way to meet him,
so he walked me to the infirmary and we agreed on the telephone today (or
yesterday; I'm still a bit delirious about what day it happened and what
day it now is) that we would postpone lunch until next week.
He said to report that he's taken a hiatus from all online life for a
while, so that he can focus on more important matters, but that he will
check through the archives and re-subscribe at some point in the future.
He regrets not having come home with tusks from Tuscany. <*big cheesy
grin*>
I guess there's nothing better -- if you have to have your first broken
bone -- to be accompanied to the mechanic by a list-member-on-hiatus!
And now I have four weeks off my feet to consider. It lies ahead of me
like a good dessert. (If I could excise the pain -- but we know from
Hemingway that pain is good for you, no? 8-)
Thanks for asking. It was gallant of Will, definitely.
--tim