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Oh dear.
(I have even lost myself !)
Looking for order and clarity.?
But reality requires a poetic mix of ingredients in our lab-work, art-adventures, and in writing notes to cabbages.
This is fun, but perhaps not worth your lab time.
We will fade away very soon.
So, IT IS ALL FUN CODE, CABBAGE.
My funky translation is in the capital letters.
Cabbage wrote and I tried to clarify:
Fighting the urge to exclaim "was that code?" with a puzzled face (and assuming it wasn't), I think I must point out that although I manage quite well with high-horsed literary English, I really don't understand slang or dialect that well (especially not of the Northern American variety), so if any of the words listed below were of vital importance to understanding your last mail, please feel free to supply me with translations into, well, English that a foreigner with a basic understanding in English would understand. Again, no disrespect intended at all, but in between "at your whim" = WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT, and "marijuana" I kind of lost you in translation (although I'm not sure why the pot popped up, I'm glad to assume you're not a fan - neither am I). And no, Google translate didn't improve things (although it did add some humurous twists, such as you being a "stabber" = HUGGER = ONE WHO HUGS PEOPLE, and rinsing laundry while 18 = SOAKING UP EXPERIENCES LIKE A SPONGE)...
"wonder stuff" - would that be imaginary ideas?
AMAZING-ENTERTAINING SHIT TALK,
"no hustle" = DO NOT PROMOTE MYSELF FOR MONEY - would that imply that you don't engage in fraud, or that you don't like to move around? I MOVE A LOT, C.
"$non-starter" = I HAVE NEVER REALLY MADE MONEY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A LIVING, FROM THE SALE OF MY PICTURES - I assume it has to do with money, and that money is not a great motivating force to you, would that be correct?
"unholy shit" = YOU ARE REALLY ON MY CASE CABBAGE, YOU ARE IN ATTACK MODE, TRASH-TALKING - is that good or bad? and would it be better or worse than "holy" shit? SAID WHILE GRINNING, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.
"army weekends" = I SPENT A YEAR STUDYING RUSSIAN IN THE ARMY IM MONTEREY CA, AND WENT TO S.F. = SAN FRANCISCO, ON WEEKENDS TO GO WHERE THE 'BEATS' WERE, ETC- no idea
"S.F." = SAN FRANCISCO - I'm stumped. Science Fiction? Swedish Film? Sinn Fein? Security Forces?
"A.G." = ALLEN GINSBERG, WROTE "HOWL" I assume it's a person, but I can't for my life recall enough modern US history to figure out who it might be (or why he/she would howl, for that matter)
"soaking" = EXPERIENCING - I can only suspect that it has nothing to do with actually being placed in a waterbath"
Anyway, time for some tea and then pick up the kiddies = MOSES & ESTHER ARE BOTH 23 + MONET IS 39,THIS IS HER HUSBAND NICK, http://lofisymphony.com/, AND WE DESIGN MY WEBSITE TOGETHER. I STILL PICK THEM UP SOMETIMES!
Hope you're having a pleasant day.
Swede = RUTABAGA / TURNIP (vegetable pun intended)
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE "CABBAGE" TO ME.
Os = HUGS, Bill
