MRB, My dear new fab fave avatar, as Mark says,
"there's a quickening of things after the list (which covers a lot of ground itself, in the rapidity of epiphanaic happiness: the houses and boats and Bay waters proper are seen as one comes toward Sausalito. It's like an accelerating camera pan at the triumphal end of a movie, showing liberation from past circumstance." I climbed up the side of Tamalpais once, and then up and up, on one of those electric transmission towers that carry the current to the city. I was on a quest at the time, and on a community college field trip that took us around the state studying riparian ecology. The first leg of our trip had taken us to the Sierras and a hot springs campsite near Tahoe where I spent the night in the school van, pouring out my heart and longings for a girl who was the girl of my best friend, to another girl, to whom I became incredibly attracted after that night and when we completed our academic excursion to the bay area and the Sausalito mudflats I'd become completely obsessed. Teresa Davis was her name. After our confidential conversation from before, I felt she was a kindred spirit and the night we camped near Mt. Tam, I had such a longing for her, I didn't know where to go or what to do. Climbing and climbing seemed the only outlet possible. And when I got to the top of that scary tower, and looked out over the dark expanse of the bay and saw the lights of the city sparkling from the highscraper windows, and exhiliaration and loneliness came over me that I could never describe but "liberation from past circumstance" comes about as close to encapsulating that feeling as any words I've come across yet. so thanks for that. John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
