I don't know what problems I might encounter. Can you
be a bit clearer?
Candice
P.S.Why do you single me out, if that's what you do,
Anny--for special treatment?
--- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Excuse me Candice Ward,
>
> do you have any problems? Let us know what is wrong,
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give
> birth to a dancing
> star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
> On 8/6/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > --- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Jeex, 2 nice days in a year_ I just listened to
> > > Prairie Home Companion, I
> >
> > > know, I know, nobody likes it here....
> > >
> > >How brave you are, Verena!
> >
> > Candice
> > >
> > > On 8/5/07, Frederick Pollack
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Kenneth Wolman"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:33 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: I said he was my favorite
> literary
> > > character...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Frederick Pollack wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I see Pynchon's point about the "width and
> > > tallness" of the wind along
> > > > >> 14th St. But as a native and ever-homesick
> > > Chicagoan I must say that,
> > > > >> for sheer intensity of Venturi effect, any
> > > east-west street in the
> > > > Loop,
> > > > >> between State St. and Michigan Avenue,
> beats
> > > 14th St. by a mile. Plus
> > > > >> the tendency for that wind to change
> direction
> > > in an instant - off the
> > > > >> prairie, then off the Lake - without losing
> > > speed. Carried me and my
> > > > >> umbrella a block once when I was ten.
> > > > >
> > > > > Xmas week 1973 I go to the MLA convention,
> held
> > > that year in Chicago.
> > > > > They stuck us in great hotels: I was in the
> > > Palmer House. All the
> > > > > graduate students are job-hunting, very taut
> and
> > > open to raucousness.
> > > > > Male faculty, after a year in Binghamton,
> act
> > > like a bunch of miners
> > > > down
> > > > > the hills of Colorado. So do the females.
> We
> > > start drinking Canadian
> > > > > Club at 9:00 AM. Parties, condolence
> sessions,
> > > bacchanalia all the
> > > > > livelong day. I get to witness Leslie
> Fiedler
> > > groping two women at
> > > > once.
> > > > > The party is the Joyce Society or some such
> > > thing and it feels like 100
> > > > > people stuffed into a room the size of a
> > > wristwatch. Everyone is
> > > > smoking
> > > > > something and everyone is real drunk.
> Later, my
> > > roomie and I kill
> > > > another
> > > > > bottle at 2:00 AM. I leave him watching
> Lanza
> > > in The Great Caruso and
> > > > > pass out. Oddly, I don't feel drunk. At
> 7:00 I
> > > get my wake-up call
> > > > from
> > > > > the desk. Immediately I am convinced I am
> going
> > > to die. My fingernails
> > > > > hurt. Once I am able to get out of bed
> without
> > > fear of a technicolor
> > > > yawn
> > > > > all over the carpet, I discover the pain of
> > > water in a shower. Years
> > > > > later I am reminded of this horror when I
> read
> > > about a very ill Teresa
> > > > of
> > > > > Avila confined to a Spanish sanatorium where
> > > they tie dead chickens to
> > > > her
> > > > > suppurating wounds, figuring one poison
> drives
> > > out another. I slink
> > > > into
> > > > > corners afraid someone will spot me. This
> is
> > > hilarious since everyone
> > > > is
> > > > > in the Parker House coffee shop nursing
> > > independently-acquired
> > > > hangovers.
> > > > >
> > > > > The operator on the phone had cheerily
> announced
> > > that it was 35 degrees
> > > > in
> > > > > Chicago. That doesn't sound cold. Then I
> hit
> > > Michigan Avenue, hangover
> > > > > and brains in hand, and discover a typhoon
> > > blowing up...and the freaking
> > > > > SUN is out. Binghamton got cold too but the
> > > wind always died down when
> > > > > the temperature approached laboratory
> absolute
> > > zero. THIS is atrocious.
> > > > > "Windy City" they called it. I suppose they
> > > still call it that?
> > > > >
> > > > > ken
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > The Palmer House should have warned you. Wind
> > > chill in Chicago can make
> > > > Minnesotans cry. -- Summer, on the other hand,
> > > kills people by the
> > > > hundreds.
> > > > There are two nice days a year. You wait for
> > > them. Hopefully see them
> > > > out
> > > > in a blues club on Lincoln Boulevard.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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