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Posted by: Larry Eisenberg (larrysbox@msn.com) on 5/15/1998@18:12hrs:
In Reply to: TWO GUYS and Close Encounters with Calamari posted by: Art on 5/08/1998@12:22hrs:
Art,
Never did have a taste for Calamari but I think I'll give it a try again. Visited your sites again and was very touched by what I found there. The panama canal and your grandfather particularly. There's a mystery in memoire and memory and nostalgia and it isn't just drumming up the past or living in the past. There's something more epic to it that I really can't articulate; something in the nature of the old passion plays or the gatherings for Dionysis that gave us the great Greek tragedies. It is the retelling of the old stories from the great distance that only time provides and allows us a perspective and perception into our present lives that we couldn't otherwise understand. There is magic in the retelling of old stories...and healing!
One of my favorite books is Gabriel Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and what's so wonderful about it is it's told in the voice of a man coming back to his village after 23 years and remembering a day from the past with a precision and insight that was never available during that past. It begins with the line, "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on."
I appreciate your reverence for these kinds of things. And we do share a great deal. My wife is the adult child of an alcoholic and in fact I am now in my ninth year of recovery from alcohol and cocaine addiction.
Be well,
Larry