Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:29:01 -0500
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Anarchism?


At 01:27 AM 11/29/00 -0600, Sandi & Scott Spaeth wrote:

 > I'm in the middle of reading Edward Abbey's book "The Fool's Progress" 
and keep getting reminded of you, Bart and Carp.  If you haven't > read it, 
you might enjoy it.

Yes, it is a fool's progress.   We're in the new house at $800 a month and 
I am of two minds.  One says "EIGHT-FUCKING-HUNDRED DOLLARS A 
MONTH?   WHAAAAAAAA?"

The other says, jeeezus, what took us so long?   Man, I walk out of the 
back door and can piss or shoot deer, whichever desire possess me.  At 
night when we're out walking the beagles and the blood hound in the forest 
that starts twenty feet from our door we stop and we 
hear..........nothing.  Period.  Zip.  Nada.   At times there's no 
background noises at all.   You can see stars that aren't directly 
overhead.   Those used to be available only on catfishing nights.

We've been here two weeks almost and haven't heard a siren, even off in the 
distance.  If we do hear one it'll probably mean that the ambulance is 
coming for Old Ralph across the road, or that I've let the chainsaw slip 
and I've cut off a foot.   Maybe, MAYBE, during the day a car drives by 
every 10 minutes.  Far more road bicyclers pass than cars.

I don't take a nap every evening after school and instead go outside and 
clear underbrush out of the pine forest, or split firewood.
I only spend 20 minutes or so a day on the computer, and I don't watch very 
much tube except for the morning news before school.

I saw three deer this AM and didn't shoot at any of them.

Back in the woods at night it's not all quiet; occasionally a coyote yips 
in the distance.

Eighthunnert frigging bucks a month.  Maybe it's progress.  Maybe it ain't.

Actually moving the 6 miles may have increased my life span.



carp