. And please We (in a freeze-frame) had two bitterly cold days when the children and aged were kept at home.Mister Keillor,the keepest of the highest hill in Tasmania, kept one day he braised another observation. Don't fall! Candice .. > ----- O Candice's original Message ----- > From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 2:24 PM > Subject: Re: I said he was my favorite literary > character...Gavin in _The Sound and the Fury_ and other Faukner novels, including _As I lay dying_. )I'm watching Flem Snopes. Candice Candice > > > > Hey, I know that walk. I wasn't born on 14th St., > but I did > > live there (well, at 56 7th Ave., 19H, just south > ///of W. 14th Gavin in the Snopes> > St.) from approx. my third year through my eighth > year. Cold > > as hell it was some times of year. That would have > been > > several years after your father's walk. > > > > Hal > > > > ". . . the old is too old and the new is too old." > > --Gertrude Stein > > > > > > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/