November 16, 2005
We recently received this (unsolicited) letter from a reader well known among many circles in Lawrence. We avail his communication here (including enclosed photo) without further preface. -ed ![][1] Merci, Dieu! Yes. Reynaud - the only one. Can you believe? I am here once more, for request of Phil Cauthon, Editor - one man with absence of coiffure. When I am leaving Kansas two year before, I have disgust for this stinking goats of Lecompton - but of Lawrence, I am knowing some good thing. For the Thanksgiving, this Editor is asking me for writing the thing in Lawrence for which I give thanks, without speaking of The Outhouse. Therefore I make for you some note of some nice thing I am loving in Kansas. This Birds "Starlingualistes," they are name in France - this black one, shining, having the eye yellow like pustule. This bird are too many in Kansas, always for screaming and eating too much the birds seeds. But many too are other styles of nice birds in the Kansas. This cardinal in red! Ho ho! This lemony meadowlark and the morningwood pecker! I confess I am not liking so much this owl - I catch scare for the Twin Peak. But I am liking very much the sparrow, this busy thing, and in Kansas are many of sparrow. Many these Kansas bird are singing all the day, and so, everywhere is seeming pastoral. Also, too, in the patio of the cafe, you must beware of this table which is under shades of trees. Yes, the poopoo. This Bratwurst One time ago, for this Arts in Parks, I have consume five bratwurst consecutive, in the afternoon. And for one week after, things did not improve until I am eating the yogurt. Oh, this disruptions of bratwurst! For this I am forbid now for enter the toilet of this Bourgeois Pigs. It is the attraction fatal, this explosive sausage, like the absinthe and this "Lost." But I am liking it! Mais oui! With this "kraut," hoopla! This Torments of Kansas I confess I catch nervous sometime for this Kansas torment - la nature sauvage! The sky, black! The wind, enrage! People are fearing the arrival of this whirling cone, which take up to the heaven many the cow and too this mobile homes. One time, for the sudden tunder, I embrace too much one cat and for this I have now the disfigurement (warning: if you see me, say nothing). And this flash lights - the x-ray! For the erection of the tiny hairs! In this torment, I am fearing the window and refusing to bathe! (which is French and good). And so, this torments of Kansas is more strong to me than this scary movie of Japan. This Bugs For so many bug are there so many bird in the Kansas. But this chigger! Inside you it live! In brown places! I am not liking this. But I enchant for this fire-fly of the evening. Once ago in Mexico, I have make the experiment of the peyote and for many year I am seeing the fire-fly - a dream, I am thinking, the cosmic. It is good, in Kansas, such things are existing, not only dreams. Too are good this grasshopper which is making this rasping (LOUD) in summer's time. It is the music of frottage, and when I am hearing this, I am hot! This Squirrels Ho ho! Funny things! So many the squirrel in Lawrence! Some people are saying this squirrels is the rat for the tree, but I am liking very much this beast, with the puffy tail and the rudeness. If you are making bother for some squirrels, this squirrel will say to you many the bad word and some tauntings - in this way squirrels are speaking (chuk-chuk). And so they do only from the arms of the tree, high above. But if you are advancing, this squirrels are running away. For this are the squirrel very much like the French peoples, therefore good. So too are this squirrel always for the coitus in the public place, without shame - also French and very good. This "Stare" In Kansas is this "stare." Yes, I have said it (and I have spoken one time before). To stare is to fix this gaze. In Kansas, this gaze is fixed and also glazed. Even in the France, when the stare is discovered, the one who make the stare must look away. The Kansas people, staring, are not looking away. They have the open mouth - perhaps, this peoples are being "on pause." This "stare" is rude, therefore French and very good. This Trains Sometime, when I am hearing the cries of this trains, I am thinking of the home of which I am belonging and unknowing. This cry of trains is to make for my heart one side the happy, one side the sad. To remain or to ride? To love or to live? This train is always going, and when it comes to you, it cries. And so are some nice things in Lawrence, Kansas. Here, without goats, a life perhaps is O.K. - it is the "laid-back," and some are saying this Lawrence is "oasis." Perhaps. But the place you are living is not so important; for if you are always happy for see the new morning, it is Thanksgiving. [1]: http://media.lawrence.com/img/blogs/invasive/reynaudthanksgiving05.jpg
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Joel (Joel Mathis) says...
Reynaud, mon ami excentrique et chÃvre-affectueux. Il fait si beau d'entendre parler de votre amour des ecureuils !
November 16, 2005 at 1:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
davidryan (David Ryan) says...
Ah, so it *was* Reynaud I saw walking all gangly and painless up 9th Street towards the Kwik Mart the other night.
I called out, but he didn't answer. Looked to be listening to an iPod.
November 16, 2005 at 1:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
tomking (Tom King) says...
I'm telling you, he's a changed man. He's different--moody, almost lovesick. And he smells, unbelievably, of patchouli. What did you do to him, Joel?
November 16, 2005 at 2:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Joel (Joel Mathis) says...
Oh, Tom, I don't really swing that way.
By which I mean: I don't date French people. Too much cigarette smoke and Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies. One gets sick of cynical whimsy, after awhile.
November 16, 2005 at 3:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
leslie (Leslie vonHolten) says...
I am thoroughly lost.
November 16, 2005 at 5:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says...
Leslie...you're not the only one...
November 16, 2005 at 5:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
godjilla (Jill Ensley) says...
AWESOME.
God bless the French.
November 16, 2005 at 8:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
DavidRose (anonymous) says...
yea, squirrels and public sex rawkr. The lil fox up on campus are better.
fixed and glazed, yes
my mouth is shut, tho
more of this please!!
November 16, 2005 at 10:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
feeble (anonymous) says...
The path to understanding Reynaud is the same path one takes when looking for a bit of Chartreuse. Cheers.
November 17, 2005 at 9:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
leslie (Leslie vonHolten) says...
I understand Reynaud (he seems divine). I'm lost on the comments. I suspect the path is found somewhere around the Bourgeois Pig.
November 17, 2005 at 9:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says...
Pourquoi est-il que certaines certains aiment des cliques tellement ? Societes secrÃtes, mots de code, plaisanteries interieures ? Peut-Ãtre si les Français (et d'autres snobs ou amoureux de
clique) etaient de meilleurs amis à d'autres ils n'auraient pas
besoin de tant de secrets et de cynisme, pour ces choses ne sont-elles pas une mascarade de feignent-elles le
comradery ?
November 17, 2005 at 10:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
stinkinggoats (anonymous) says...
This ladylaw: I have done that thing before but I will not do it again.
This feeble: This chartreuse! Hoopla! Perhaps, someday, you will buy me some drink. Or some gifts.
This leslie: I am thinking now how hot you are.
Saucisson,
R.
November 17, 2005 at 10:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
thetom (anonymous) says...
Ahh, this stinking goat. Of this the cheese I like maybe too much. Hoopla! If you see me say nothing.
November 17, 2005 at 12:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
leslie (Leslie vonHolten) says...
oh, Reynaud! Now I see!
November 18, 2005 at 8:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )