I can assure you I have NEVER spoken to Ginsberg. One of the teachers as
school had a book he wrote, I never considered myself a prude BUT, I never
read such nasty stuff IN ALL MY LIFE!!!!! I wouldn't know what to say to
such a person who wrote such perverted stuff except WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT
WITH LYE SOAP!!!!! Ruth
At 4:37 PM -0600 3/15/03, John Callan wrote:
>I am not the least disappointed with the outcome. I doubt I'd have
>ended up at my beloved Tundra Tech if I had not been spurned by Windham
>and abused by RinkyDink U. And Tundra Tech did me a world of good. We
>are kind of hoping to send our son there...kinda hoping he doesn't have
>to take the pinball bumper careening route I took to get there...and he
>has indicated an occasional passing interest.
>
>Have you really spoken to Ginsberg? Wow, that would impress Patrick
>that I know someone who spoke to Ginsberg!
>
>-jc
>
>Actually, a year earlier than applying to Windham, I was really excited
>about the Forestry School at Wanakeena(spelling?) NY. I was gonna be a
>smoke jumper and do something useful. Then I saw the requirement for
>Trigonometry and I just gave up on the whole thing. Years later,
>making up math deficiets to get into Architecture School, I discovered
>that I absolutely loved trigonometry. It was the first math course
>that made sense and you could use it to do something more useful than
>mixing chemicals! Who knew?! I feel really sorry for kids who close
>doors without walking through and at least seeing if anyone is guarding
>the door ready to kick their sorry unprepared butt out. I'm a big fan
>of open enrollment and heavy duty competition to stay. Comes from
>growing up in the wrong neighborhood, I suppose.
>-jc
>
>On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Ken Follett wrote:
>
>>> Hey, I made it easy for a school to turn me down...
>>
>> John: I was turned down by Deep Springs twice. Only place I ever
>> really wanted to go. A 2-yr cattle ranch/school north of Death Valley.
>> I don't know why now because I hate hot places. Back then it was my
>> absolute. They said that due to my heavy interest in William Blake
>> that I exceeded their quota for mysticism, or something much. I
>> suppose the fact I said I wanted to be a poet at one of my interviews
>> but had no idea who Gary Snyder was did not help. Years later Ginsberg
>> advised me to go to Naropa University to The Jack Kerouac School of
>> Disembodied Poetics. But by that time I was set cranky in my stubborn
>> angst. I was raised around the intellectual hyperventittilation of
>> Cornell. For a semi-conscious townie that is a brain f*ck. Wrote a
>> letter once to Columbia Univ. telling them they did not know what they
>> were missing. I'm still waiting for them to respond... though I like
>> the checks pretty well they send when we fix their buildings. Best I
>> ever did insofar as education was stop self-medicating and start
>> busting stone. Hayvard began w/ a library and with the zeal of a rabid
>> survivalist I've been accumulating books for a while now -- just need
>> to make a few more adjustments. If I sum up my education into a
>> nutshell it was one afternoon when the Snap-On Tools salesman we were
>> building a little masonry for told me his observation of life that
>> when we need to know something it happens to come along, we only need
>> to be strong and ready to grab it. Education is a state of mind. ][<en
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