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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gauguin who wrote (43705)	12/21/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Yes. It would be terrible of you to leave. It would be terrible of Cobe, too. Life will make us leave whether we want to or not, over time. No sense just walking out from pique. We once had the best group of friends. It was a magic moment, it seems like in retrospect, one that lasted for a few years. Not very many years. But it was just the right size group, and everyone liked each other, and it was so sacred a chemistry that no one ever even flirted with anyone else's mates (oh, i just thought of one exception; but she just couldn't help herself, it was a sort of reflex) (another friend said of her, "She does her best work in the kitchen," I thought that was so communicative; and she was a great cook, too.) (She and her hubby were "swingers." She and her first husband had been, too. They tried to get us to "swing" with them; no way.) And there was one well-located apartment where we could hang out, and we had a lot of fun and a lot of lively, amusing arguments, and ate a lot of good food, and loved each other. And then N and I went away for a while. And by the time we got back, everything was different. In my mind, I had called that group of friends, during that period, "the magic friendship circle," cornily; and there was no more circle. Some people had moved. Some had new partners, and the chemistry was wrong, or we were just mad at the loss of the first partner. And other things happened. Waitaminute. Why am I telling you this? Oh yes. Because this DAR "moment" will end because everything does. So it seems really a not at all a good idea to end the party just because... the landlord annoys you. Is what I think. (I haven't only adjusted, though; I actually like the new SI better. I like the speed (ten at a time) and rt quotes and PM folders, and the folders that are coming. And they are going to fix the Search This Thread Only feature, which was a loss. Maybe they've done it already.) At first I admit I hated it. I do hate change. As a rule.

To: Gauguin who wrote (43705)	12/21/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

If I may be perfectly blunt. (Oh, no, not again.) OK, but if I'm not, how will I communicate? Here's the deal, see. Your world-class osteopathic surgeon is about to remove part of your skeleton and replace it with a metal prosthesis. You're going to be on bed rest for several weeks, if not months. We just might be a lifeline to the World At Large, and to the sanity that Paul finds by communicating his Paulness. His Paulosity. So, if you leave us, it may hurt you as bad as it will hurt us. A world without Paul is too horrible to contemplate. Odysseus spent ten years going through the most incredible bullshit just to get back home to his wife, son and dog. Actually, you could say it was twenty, because he was fighting Trojans for ten, as well. I trust that somehow you will fight your way back to us, despite jarring color combinations, despite blinking advertisements. Chart your course past Scylla and Charybdis. We'll be waiting.