DJ; RE:" philosophic/melancholic "
One of the most amusing things about Texas is the modern myth of the cowboy. Of course this never existed - it was created by the American media. But people today have actually adopted it... they wear (manufactured) cow-boy clothes, and talk a lazy, vulgar English. Ever walked behind a herd of 1,000 cattle? I have. Guess what? What cow-boys did was wade through shit for hundreds of miles, for days on end. If we could only smell the Old West at the cinema, no one would ever want to be like the Marlboro Man.
And in a place where there is no culture, like a Houston - where there is nothing to do but stay encapsulated in your air-conditioned car or air-conditioned shopping-mall or air-conditioned office (everyone is pale as a ghost, like pasty-faced Englishmen) and make money or spend money - for there is nothing else to do there - the aspect of the 'cowboy culture' with its pickup-trucks and franchise Mexican food restaurants, takes on the eery glow of the surreal. Everyone is from somewhere else, but we're all Texans, or something like that, someone tried to explain.
You're philosophic and melancholic ?!! I'm devastated, period. Over here I'm just a foreigner. Over there, I'm an alien from another planet; all my American illusions have long since been shattered.
I eat with two hands now, order waiters around like a sea captain and linger at the table for hours of conversation afterwards, often picking my teeth and smoking little cigars, for one thing. For another thing, my Italian suits, English shoes and Swiss underwear will all be hot as hell in the 90+ degrees F plus 90+ percent humidity of the Gulf Coast: I'll probably wilt, if not melt.
But then there's the net or le r‚seau, thank goodness. And so far as you are concerned - dear DJ - I'm not moving anywhere. After all, I am where you read me, n'est-ce pas ? (^_^)
-Steve
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