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.
