[From Rick Marken (01.01.02.1330)]
Bruce Nevin (2001.01.02 01:56 EST) --
You've got a lot of fence-mending [with RTP] to do if that's
your aim.
Fence-mending is a two-way street. I can't mend whatever fences
exist between RTP and me on my own, especially since I never
wanted or expected any fences to be built. Nevertheless, I have
offered olive branches to RTP and, so far, have been rewarded
with nearly having my hand bitten off.
I would very much like to mend fences with Ed, Tom, Tim, et al.
All they have to do is want to too and the fence mending can
begin.
Best regards
Rick
···
--
Richard S. Marken Phone or Fax: 310 474-0313
MindReadings.com mailto: marken@mindreadings.com
www.mindreadings.com
[From Bruce Gregory (2001.0102.1708)]
It is unfortunate, perhaps, that no one seems to remember Frost's irony in
"Mending Wall."
"There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense."
BG
[From Rick Marken (01.01.02.1445)]
Bruce Gregory (2001.0102.1708)--
It is unfortunate, perhaps, that no one seems to remember
Frost's irony in "Mending Wall."
It's a wonderful poem but I picked the title only because Bruce
Nevin suggested that I have some fence mending to do. Like Frost's
New England neighbor, Bruce was suggesting that "good fences make
good neighbors". Bruce may be un-ironically correct in this case
so, like Frost, I'm willing to go along and try mending fences.
But I'd rather go fenceless and let loose the cows of PCT.
Best
Rick
···
--
Richard S. Marken Phone or Fax: 310 474-0313
MindReadings.com mailto: marken@mindreadings.com
www.mindreadings.com