I received a letter from katie with 3 slides that she and her dad had found from 1973.
unfortunately,1 is of the Land Cruiser fully loaded with 'someone' behind the wheel, 1 is of the Land Cruiser with Katie's younger sister behind the wheel and the last is a shot of Joe with his parents (age ?? teenager-ish, but i'm unsure what year).
i have taken the slides it to get prints made and will mail you a copy (or, i can scan them into the my computer but someone else will have to help me unload/download or attached to the blog..... or i need your email address's....i know how to send an attachment)
this is truly a sad ending to a journey that has taken me to so many places.....emotional highs and lows. what started out with a search for a few from my past has generated renewed friendships. All was going so well up to and including Charles trip to Saratoga,NY and getting him off to college....and then, job loss and now the last hope for some photographic evidence of the 3 amigos from 1973 has been dashed......fitting i guess.....sad....
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Does anyone really want photographic evidence of the Lock Ness Monster? Certified footage of Bigfoot? Isn't it better to leave those bigger-than-life legends in the shadows -- alive in our imaginations in a way no banally documented creatures, pinned like butterflies in a lepidopterist's showcase, can ever be?
How entirely more satisfying the unidentifiable phantom at the wheel, the laughably pint-sized stand-in, the empty vehicle.
"We mold clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes the vessel useful."
"Poetry makes nothing happen"
(Auden). I agree with Joe: as much as I'd love to have some pictures, it would deny my own memories. It's no wonder the native Caribe indians believed that our 8mm movie camera stole their souls, or that the Musselmans (Mohammedans? Mahometans? Muslims?) are the only true believers in the 2nd commandment . . .
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will keep prints and if at a later date you would like a copy just holler.
the photographic evidence did not destroy me memory just reinforced the size (small) and strange configuration (luggage rack that did not fit and the rigging's)
the one of joe and his parents is really good and i think joe and his mom would enjoy having a copy.
still unemployed and still looking. wish me luck
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