Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.61.0502040136060.15586@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: 2/4/05
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:36:29 -0500 (EST)
2/4/05 the same old thing... dribs and drabs... just turned 62 "oh my where has the time gone" o jennifer: you must live for every moment! there's not a second to lose! don't let go of that second! do everything! jennifer at 14: o alan thank you for telling me this now when i am so very young and there is still so much to learn and so much life in me! i promise i won't waste a second of my precious life! but wait, there's more! dark clouds on the horizon, and i've learned that humans are, after all, only human! don't count on anything or anyone! jennifer, it will be a big mistake! don't expect perfection! all species will die and all animals and plants! o alan, it's just a matter of time! look around you! everything you see will be gone in your lifetime! savor the essence! gone in mine, too! oh oh says jennifer, you have failed us! o o jennifer, i reply, we have led the good fight! you'll lead the good fight! it's the same good fight! different species! this one and that one! less than now, and now is less than then! don't even look at them! they're doomed! they've got no future! o o alan, it's the primate urge! it's our urge! we're better than them and better than the apes! we're not apes! we're human! we're the best there is and that's not very good but we're going to be perfect! we're on our way! it's a hard road! o jennifer, you'll follow us and do the same thing just like we followed them and we didn't think we followed them and we did the same thing! it's the way of the world, o jennifer! jennifer says o alan! oh oh oh! _