Subject:
August 8, 2011 (MN)
From:
Ernst Meyer <ernstmeyer@earthlink.net>
Date:
Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:54:47 -0400
To:
namenwir@umn.edu

Dear Marion,

Thank you for your letter.
We too are blissfully cool on Nantucket.
I have been "working with my hands"
almost continuously all waking hours for the past five days,
putting "finishing touches" on the wiring,
as well as a bit of outside painting,
taking much pleasure in the expansive views
across the moors to the distant town and the distant ocean,
properly interpreted,
I think, as the projection of my own delusions of grandeur. -
Why else does one delight in views
from the mountain's summit;
deriving satisfaction also from the irony of using the camping toilet
I have clobbered together (a five gallon bucket crowned with a toilet seat).
I haven't permitted myself any writing,
but this morning I awoke with fantasies of composing, -
and filing with the Court, 
a parody of an engineering analysis of my plumbing,
and a parody of a literary critique
of Mr. Ciarmataro's plumber's world.
Now, however, I must get started on today's wiring cosmetics.
As for your telephone call,  while on Nantucket
(until 3 p.m.  August 6) 
telephone calls to 617-484-8109  will be call-forwarded here.
As soon as we return to Belmont (about 11 p.m. August 6) 
I will remove the call-forwarding (if I don't forget)
and telephoning 617-484-8109 should rouse me in Belmont.
On Wednesday, in celebration for your imminent arrival,
the Town of Belmont is repaving School Street,
a new asphalt carpet, albeit noir rather than rouge, 
will be rolled out for your arrival at 8 p.m. on Thursday, August 11.
If we don't speak before,
I wish for you a safe and comfortable flight "home".
(Where, in fact, is "home?")
Jochen