Forum: Writers


Subject: CLICHES AND SUCH

meico opened this issue on Mar 12, 2003 ยท 10 posts


ynsaen posted Tue, 18 March 2003 at 1:45 AM

Ah, crescent, nothing like old Joe to make life a bit more interesting, is there.... Odd you should mention impeachment. One of the saddest things I've seen in a very long time, and something that will stick with me a long time happened at the state fair. I was strolling through one of the merchant areas (I get lost there sooo easy!) and came around suddenly to this rather plain booth -- it was the spraseness of it that made me look, and I know you'll understand that -- and at it was just a table with about eight books on it behind which sat a man who looked as if the world had crushed him flat. The book was by Evan Mecham -- his side of the story, with that old Governor face smiling from it's otherwise vey simple jacket. The man was ole Evan himself, whom last I'd met some 25 years earlier while visiting a family friend you might also recall (Name of Sam Steiger, though I'll deny it forever), and while I was rather preoccupied during most of that, I recalled all of it just looking into his face. Made me sad, it did. Didn't change my mind about his term, mind you, but it surely made me sad. Howdy neighbor -- how bouts all this rain! Looks like we'll be able to drink water this summer after all!

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)