Subject: Re: hello my dearest fishes!
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 05:57:17 GMT
Hi, dear Laughing Man,
welcome to the bowl, from a young and fresh
subscriber! I heard about you in many mails, so
apparently, some people here have missed you as much
as you 've missed the list... But Mattis left, and I
don't know Matt or Bruce.
Just a little introduction to you: My name is Valérie
Aron, I'm french and I pretend studying law. I joined
the list about 10 months ago, and I'm totally addicted
to it. Here I am.
Hope to hear you soon.
Val
--- The Laughing Man <the_laughing_man@spray.se>
wrote:
> Suddenly, as if I was only returning from a two-week
> country holiday, cheeks still blushing from the wind
> and the sun, I find myself looking right into the
> Bananafish bowl. The same old voices, the same
> personalities I constantly tried to figure out
> behind the oh so blunt object called Words (and, for
> me: foreign words, understandable yet definitely
> foreign; constructing sentences I could never
> totally imitate). Some new ones as well, mingling in
> the pond, bringing fresh news and thoughts from the
> outside world, but that kernel of oldies was still
> there, when I surfed into the October 2001 archive.
> Unshaven, my clothes worn down, I stayed a bit
> nervous in the hall, reluctant to enter. Yet, as
> soon as I searched and found my way, I knew couldn’t
> leave. So I dropped my card into the subscription
> box, and entered.
>
> Hello. It is I, the man constantly crossing the
> Chinese-French border, a bag on my head but laughing
> none the less. For those of you who still remember
> me, I’m sorry I left you like that, a year and a
> half ago, fading away and then dropping out without
> a word. I’ve never been good at farewells, probably
> because I don’t know myself enough to realize I’m
> leaving. I always think I’ll just go for a quick
> walk, for a hot dog or a pack of cigarettes, but
> then one thing leads to another, and when I realize
> I should go back it feels as if is too late. I left
> my hotmail account alone for so long I couldn’t get
> back in when I returned.
>
> This Friday, I felt extra reluctant to start
> working. Everything was set: a cup of hot, freshly
> grinded coffee on my desk; good morning-notches
> exchanged, the sound of the office slowly waking up
> now fading away into the background. My laptop was
> alive and ready, but I felt a longing I hadn’t
> allowed myself to act on before. I longed for you
> guys, for the fishes. For the bowl. So I searched
> the web. And you were still there, like I knew you
> would.
>
> I’ve missed you. I’m a sentimental man, more so than
> Mr Glass senior, I’m afraid, and I won’t bore you
> with all the details; but I’ve missed you. How much
> I only totally realized when I started reading in
> the Archive. I could go on at length (those of you
> that remembers me know I’m lot lying) about that
> David Copperfield kind of crap, and I probably will
> at some time, but for now, all I want to say is that
> I never really been off my bananafish bike ever
> since I entered it.
>
> Cecilia, Tim, Scottie, Will, Paul x 2, Jim, Vines,
> LR,
> Bernd, Catherine – seeing your old names send warmth
> into the cold Swedish air. How about Mattis, Bruce,
> Matt and the others? Still here?
>
> And to all of you I haven’t yet had the pleasure of
> knowing, hello!
>
> /tlm
>
>
>
>
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