[at-l] Finally...

[rhymworm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Rubin)]

Brilliant! I wouldn't change a word. I might change all the others, but
"a" and "word" are safe.

--Rhymin' Worm

> Message: 14
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:05:32 -0500
> From: Felix <AThiker@smithville.net>
> To: AT-list <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: [at-l] Finally...
>
> 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.
>
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