Hi Y'all:
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the various responses to the Nov topic
on how Lila has impacted our lives...for once something wasn't totally "over
my head". The topic also "personalized" the group to a degree, and
personality is a Good thing. Years ago I met a lovely young woman at a
party, one of those magical moments when the two of you just "click" and you
feel like this is Ms. Right and we'll be together forever in wondrous bliss
and there must be a God because life has turned into a Paradise and we are
Adam and Eve and will live off the aura of our love for each other and our
wondrous Creator...so I was bouncing off the clouds the next couple of days
and attempting to refrain from calling too early because I didn't want to
appear desperate and I learned long ago that chicks hate "desperate", though
desperate was I...anyway I finally called and was horrified to realize I had
either written down the wrong number (I had had a few drinks which I always
needed to exhibit some semblance of gaiety and mask my usual somber demeanor)
or she gave me the wrong number on purpose...but I knew this was fate of the
highest order, or classification, and numerous calls to numerous friends and
acquaintances produced no knowledge of this mysterious angel so I was sure my
life was over it was just a matter of what method and a couple months later
I'm walking in the Mall and from a distance I see a fairly attractive woman
and I'm wanting to "check her out" without appearing too indiscreet. As she
approaches I felt my heart, nay my whole Being, leap with delight as I
realized "It's HER!!! My God it's HER!!!" And I knew that all would be
right with the universe. The point is, that's kind of how I felt when I was
perusing the Philo section of Barnes and Noble a few years ago and the
chartreuse-colored copy of Lila materialized before me. I knew it wasn't ZAMM
but it had to be Pirsig!!! I was like "he's BACK!!!" It was that same sense
of recognition of something familiar, something really good.
Clarke
P.S. She dumped me less than a month later (it's hard to hide that somber
nature forever) but I still have Lila.
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