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To: zonder who wrote (1521)	5/20/2003 9:48:22 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Hey zonder, The thread has turned to sex, why not "drugs", pretty soon it will be "drug" into that final step of depravity, rock n roll.. So I will do it know.. Here's to the "Dead". Or maybe it should be let's hear it for the "Dead".. I don't know... Ain't it a shame, that us libs have toooo much fun ? :) c

To: zonder who wrote (1521)	5/20/2003 11:57:54 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Hi z, All us disciples of E Abbey use DRUG.. :) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< EDWARD ABBEY, 1927-1989 A maverick, a fly in the ointment, an environmentalist, a naturalist, an enemy, an ally, a thrower of beer cans, a dam hater, a river lover......... call him what you like. In the words of Wendell Berry "No sooner has a label been stuck to his back by a somewhat hesitant well-wisher than he runs beneath a low limb and scrapes it off". Ed defied simple description for one very basic reason... He was a very complicated man. A man of letters who took his writing as seriously as his love of nature. He wrote the good and the bad. Some of his words irritate just about everybody. Many of his words change lives. And that's just the way he wanted it. He despised the Abbey wannabe, yogurt lipped, granola heads who clung to his every word. He dismissed them as not having the intelligence or the steel to make their own decisions. He surprised himself, often times, with the words he put on paper. He believed in human and natural rights. Seldom with human rights prevailing. He lived his life well, therefore.. He wrote well. "You wanna be a good writer, then be a good liver" were his words and his creed. Ed's bad writing was pretty bad. Jonathan Troy, his first published novel (1954) was a mess. Yet in that year, his 27th, he had within him, and now on paper, many of the characters and themes that would permeate his writing for another 35 years. He hated his "coffee table" pictorial books which he simply "wrote them for the money". His good writing is among the best of this century. He had a power in the pen to literally alter lives. He could describe a hike on a piece of paper that showed the reader more than if he were hiking himself. He DRUG (caps mine) people out of their offices and stores. He opened up a world of "out there", no matter where it was. He loved his desert. He lived and died in it. The dust has settled on Ed's writing career. The voice within the paper will never be silenced. His legacy of 21 books, hundreds of speeches and thousands of hiked miles will well serve this generation and many more to come...>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< riverart.com I especially like this quote from above.. "You wanna be a good writer, then be a good liver" typical Abbey.. Besides that, we "pack" things, like in carry "out here" :)