October 5, 2004
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Chapter 7 – Felix (cont.)
Previous chapters sidebar autobiographyWhen we needed supplies we walked the path to the nearest village or took the boat to Ibiza for certain items and to visit friends. We did make friends among local artists and even entertained occasionally in a primitive way. Needless to say, we drank local wine and after a few months on the island I was persuaded to try amphetamines, which were called Centramina and could be bought without prescription at any pharmacy. This occasion prompted the one suicide gesture of my life. After being awake for far too many hours, I began to crash from the drug and not receiving the promised sympathy from Felix (who was also coming down) reached for a scissors laying on a table near me, cut my long hair to the scalp, marched out the door, to the sea, threw off all my clothes (ever the drama queen), marched into the water up to my neck, realized I wasn’t deliberate death material, and retraced all these steps, now shorn and humbled. Things began to go seriously downhill after this.
(to be continued)
Deep Thought: When I went for my first job interview, I guess I was pretty confident, because I told the guy who was interviewing me he was fired. I didn’t get the job, but that isn’t what bothered me. What bothered me was I found out a few months later that that guy was still working there. Hey, man, I fired you!
Today I am grateful for: Emergency dental appointments
Guess the Movie: “I’ll have what she’s having.” Answer: When Harry Met Sally, 1989.
Winner: merrow-mistral
Polls Today: Kerry 200/Bush 321. EVP: “
American Research Group has more data on the debate. Kerry gained in all three panels they used. In the random telephone interviews, Kerry now leads Bush 49% to 46%.The Gallup Poll puts them even at 49% to 49%, a big change from previous Gallup polls.
Zogby gives Bush a 1% lead. He also says that according to his poll taken Oct. 1-3, people think Kerry won the first debate by a margin of 2 to 1.
Pew puts Bush ahead 48% to 41% among registered voters.
CBS says they are tied. In short, we are in a very volatile period.”
End of Day: 8:57 pm
+ = Dentist slapped in a new filling about as fast and painlessly as you could hope for.
- = Afraid to watch Debate #2, once again. Better go find out now what they’re saying about it.
Comments (19)
Oh! Hi, thanks for subbing!
That’s so funny, I actually had thought of writing at least some things in a serial manner, because otherwise, I think they can be too wordy, or at least too long, for many people to have time to read.
Beautiful cats – they carry their personalities into their pictures, don’t you think?
Quote of the day: “When Harry met sally” is the movie. It’s what Harry tells the waitress after Sally fakes an orgasm in the restaurant.
oops, actually, it wasn’t harry who said it.
It was another customer…an older woman who had heard sally faking an orgasm.
You got it!
Emergency dental appts – that can’t be good. So glad you haven’t tried the watery grave thing again! Loving these snapshots of your past.
Must say you lived an interesting life.
Do you think you will ever publish your writing? It is REALLY interesting.
How are you cats doing these days?
Still waiting for Helens to do something. Did you watch the news last night? I can’t believe the Forest Service is letting people be so close to her.
I know. My weather site is now posting an advisory. I’m still in denial. And no plans for publishing now. Just hope I can get the bare bones down before I croak.
I do think the debates are having more effect then believed…
the dreaded dental thing again. my sympathies….
America has a problem. There are no decisive leaders left willing to engage in the pain of political life. How are the politics now on your island from 1964?
How utterly passionately bohemian…and I am very glad you didn’t pull a Virginia Woolf, but what an image of you as a sun goddess shearing your locks and your clothes and wading into the ocean to leave your life behind and only to find the ocean returning you, your sun-kissed soul, as you returned to lay with your beloved and continue on with life…
I’d like to see you face off with Donald Trump.
Say what?
Your walking into the sea reminded me of a scene from a recent Odyssey remake with Armand Assante as Odysseus. While he’s in the island of Circe, his brain addled by the sensuousness of his surroundings, his mother gives up hope that he is still alive and marches to the sea. Despite Penelope’s protestations, her mind is made up.
Irene Pappas was Anticlea…a Greek actress portraying a Greek character. How fitting
I could never get into any Speed. I go too fast as it is. It just made me nuts and the crashes are vicious. I always preferred softer intoxicants.
Wow, just catching up here. Amazing story. Thanks for sharing. How in the world did you pick out these islands? Was Felix familiar with them?
My memory is a bit hazy on this point, but I think in artistic circles like his family ran in, it was known that artistic types were heading for these islands at that time to hang out and do whatever their creative thing was.