"Oh, we shall never get to Moscow!" Though I don't laugh, I was stuck for a year in Kalamazoo, and that was probably cosmopolitician ;) compared to Plattsburgh, bookstore, fine college, etc. Columbus, however, is a pretty decent place, even though it's not Tribeca, or Oakland,. . . or Chicago. (Still, you should hear my NY mother in law on Chicago. Flat. Boring. Provincial. Blah Blah Blah.)
jks
>
>At 05:42 PM 12/06/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>Oh, Yoshie, you know better. Only the cosmopolitician cities on the coasts
>>matter. Columbus is just a fly-over. If you were anyone, you'd be at
>>Berkleyer or Columbia. jks
>
>This reminds me of Romania and the fears of intellectuals in the capital of
>being reassigned to the provinces. Oh my God! The soap operas,
>interventions, and dramas that were spun around that plot!
>
>I used to scoff at these tender-footed scholars/professionals etc. who
>didn't want to rub elbows with the provincial multitude....until I was
>repatriated (for a couple of years) to Plattsburgh, New York. Oh Boy!
>Farrah-Fawcett hairdos on all those of the female persuasion; a church/bar
>on every corner; the nearest cappuccino, sixty miles away; NO book
>store...in a college town!!! And, at that time (1987), no internet.
>
>On the other hand, there was, by some miracle, a belly dance teacher in
>town, so I started studying oriental dance (and I'm still at it). And who
>knows, maybe if I had stayed, I would have dug up other wonders. As it is,
>all I remember was this life, narrowly running between the airforce base,
>the prison, the college, and the inbred natives. AND six months of frigid
>winter every year.
>
>Happier in Oakland,
>
>Joanna B.
>
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