--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >    That warmth came in handy during the past few
> > > weeks
> > > of subzero temperatures and ice storms!  I can
> only
> > > describe it as being like an explorer, holding
> down
> > > a
> > > barren outpost in Antarctica...the wind whipping
> > > around the long line of our "barracks", the flat
> ice
> > > fields stretching endlessly in all
> directions...one
> > > kept wondering,"is this the moon?"
> > 
> > Break out the Prozac, Martha, I'm gettin'
> depressed
> > again!
> 
> This is the oddest letter.  On one hand, it's shot
> through with really painful upset and dismay and
> resentment, but at the same time the blissy parts
> strike me as completely genuine, not cranked up, as
> seems so frequently to be the case with MD and
> Purusha letters in which you can hear the gears
> practically being stripped.
> 
> It's like she's feeling both at once, or each in
> turn
> as she looks first outside and then inside herself.
> I'd guess she's never had this experience before, or
> never so starkly, and doesn't know what the hell to
> do with it.  On some level she *wants* to be
> depressed,
> and has good reason to be, but somehow that isn't
> what's happening.
> 
> Maybe I'm just romanticizing, but I'm really hearing
> something different in this letter.

I agree, Judy. It really is , not a strange letter,
but an unusual one. She juxtaposes feeling very happy
along with this bleak and barren description of the
Iowa winter. Kind of like buddha in hell!



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