See why I miss him?
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Wayne passes on most of the messages that mention me, in case I wish
> to initiate appropriate litigation.
> Unfortunately some of you have been making kind comments, thus
> robbing me of some entertainment in my declining years. How dare you!
> I did spend some time in the desert - more than the regulation 30
> days at least. Images on the pbase site (below). I put some writing
> on the site too. I did not return with stone tablets or any solution
> to the multitudinous problems of mankind. I decided that life is
> purposeless, bewildering and confused - and learned to enjoy that.
> Unfortunately I had some problems there. My knee failed as did the
> subsequent arthroscopy for a torn meniscus.
> And my travelling companion revealed himself to be not merely a
> little eccentric as I had thought but a full-blown narcissitic
> personality. Curmudgeons don't mix well with people who have no sense
> of humour and suffer from the delusion that the world revolves around
> their needs. Things got 'difficult'. And it was 'his' vehicle. I'd
> have kept calm but he began to criticise my driving skills. No true
> friend would ever do that. Eventually I just had to resign from his
> fan club.
> In early December I had a full knee replacement and so, like many
> other celebrities, I spent a chunk of the Christmas break in rehab. -
> with post-operative pain and severe sciatica. Things are slowly
> returning to normal but now that I'm off the heavy prescription
> drugs, I'm quite grumpy. Damn, I miss Oxycontin - only took me four
> days to break that habit. Someone told me that you can't buy even
> codeine over the counter in the States - no wonder you're all so
> annoyed.
> Retirement didn't work - the phone started ringing. I'm back to
> teaching Philosophy part-time on my own terms and have been well
> supplied with contract writing work. In fact I had to work from my
> hospital bed to keep up - when one rather officious nurse demanded to
> know what I thought I was doing working at 10pm, I pointed out that I
> was "probably earning double what you are right now." Obviously the
> opiates didn't dull me down too much but I did have to reread
> everything after I got straight.
>
> Why did i not return? Well, I almost never use an Oly anymore except
> as a reviewer. Last one was a waterproof compact, the 725 Tough which
> I though a bit too much of a handbag design. Fun though to write
> about how it was also sandproof, beerproof and vomitproof. However I
> did feel a pang of nostalgia when the school photographer showed up
> last week with three E-1's. He likes them because they're bulletproof
> and give good flesh tones.
>
> ALERT - the above message is personal in character and make no
> pretence to Oly relevance. Murkins should note that in addition to
> proper English spelling rather than regional novelty dialect, it
> contains several examples of irony which is a literary mode that you
> may not fully understand or recognise. Attempts at retaliation by
> snide references to my own errors and poor syntax will be met with
> derision, contempt and a detailed and public discussion of your own
> failings. Or references from Wittgenstein's Tractatus; whichever I
> feel might be more damaging.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes
>
>
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