[at-l] Finally...

[bullard@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Bullard)]

Great start, keep going, don't stop 'til it's done.  Well, take bathroom
breaks.

At 02:05 PM 1/10/2003 -0500, Felix wrote:
>Well, I'd been putting off for a long time. But, finally, I
>started a book today. Here's page one...tell me what you
>think. Should I keep going?
>
>
>About the time my job started to go bad a few years ago, I
>began collecting maps and considering places I would rather
>be. As the world closed in around me, as I learned to dread
>work I'd once loved and to hide my heart from friends, I
>would come home and reach for one the maps stacked in the
>corners of my study. It never occurred to me to call a real
>estate agent and to look for a new house and a new job--I
>didn't want to move so much as to go.
>
>When you intend to leave everything behind, climb the hill
>and not come down again, first you look for a way out. Next
>you look for  a new name.
>
>The pattern isn't new: a traveler leaves home disowned by
>friends and family, or chasing visions, or running from the
>law, or hunting forture and adventrure, and takes a new name
>for the road, for the new life, for the new story of himself
>that he wll tell. Saul the Pharisee sees the light on the
>way to Damascus and becomes Paul the Apostle. The bride
>leaves home and family to take the bridegroom's name. Jim
>Gatz goes east and becomes Jay Gatsby. The Dust Bowl hobo
>adopts the "road name" and hops a slow-running freight.
>Marion Morrison turns west and becomes John Wayne. Maybe
>this traveler hopes to journey in secret, or to reinvent
>himself, or just to run away, but the old name weighs heavy.
>Going incognito means telling a new story, creating a new
>world, carrying a lighter burden.
>
>--
>Felix Enero
>ME-->GA '98
>"Your Move"
>http://Felixhikes.tripod.com/
>
>
>
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