Admit it Barry, you miss Robin. This post says it all - you took the time *again* to repost this exchange. I've re-read the first one and I think Robin was beautiful in it. Be grateful you had any opportunity at all to slander the fellow; you may never get the opportunity again. How about a little gratitude...."Thank you Robin for sharing yourself with FFL in a most *real* way. You have enriched my life for now and into eternity. Love, Barry."
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > I find it strange that I should find a cafe rap bubbling up out of me as > the result of an offhand remark by Willytex, but hey!...as Zaphod > Beebelbrox was fond of saying, "Anything for a weird life," so here > goes... > > The remark made me want to go back and read Robin's Parting Post to this > forum, and see what he had to say *in* the last thing he "wanted to say > to us" -- to *any* and *all* of us. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466 > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466> > > You should realize that going back to read this is a somewhat heroic act > on my part, because I had trouble forcing my way through Robin's posts > in real time, much less in the rear-view mirror, but I did it. And, as a > result, I find that I have some musings to share about it. They are what > *all* of my posts here are -- pure opinion -- so anyone silly enough to > read them should probably oughta take them that way. *Unlike* Robin, I > am NOT trying to say that my opinions equate to "truth" or "reality," > whatever the fuck those things might be; they're just my opinions. > > That said, it strikes me that this Parting Post can be seen in a number > of ways. Some -- the obvious ones -- have been discussed here before. > But because people here seem to enjoy fixating on Robin and unraveling > for us the mysteries of who he is and what his "message" to us might > have been, I will discuss some of the less obvious ones. > > On the surface, this post is clearly a last-gasp attempt to suck Curtis > into replying to him and continuing to engage in one of Robin's > "confrontations" with him, after he had pushed his intended victim over > the edge by writing yet another fictitious post and signing Curtis' name > to it. If this is the only way you view Robin's Parting Post, the > attempt failed. Curtis did not reply. > > More interestingly, however, neither did anyone else. > > No one. > > Including the people who have made him almost into their poor, > persecuted Saint Robin in the time since. > > Which brings me to one of the less obvious interpretations of this > Parting Post -- that it was a form of Tantrum Yoga. > > One way to look it is, "THIS is what I want to talk about here. THIS is > pretty much the *only* thing I want to talk about here. And in order to > even *qualify* as worthy of me talking to you, you *have* to go back and > read all four of these posts I made to Curtis. Then, if you still 'side > with Curtis,' and choose to argue with me about it, I may, 'if > possible,' reply to you." > > No one replied. > > No one. > > Doesn't it make you wonder where the people who now seem to think that > Robin was the best thing since sliced bread *were* when he implored them > -- or *anyone* -- to talk about what *he* wanted to talk about? > > I would say, in retrospect, that the clear message he received from > Fairfield Life was, "Sorry...we *don't* want to talk about your petty > ego-squabbles with Curtis, no matter how cosmically you try to reframe > them." > > To his credit, when Robin received this clear message, he STFU. > > And now his "supporters," who remained completely silent at the time, > and who had nothing whatsoever to say about the only thing he wanted to > talk about, can't seem to STFU themselves. Go figure. >
