Fun_People Archive
30 May
Time Changes Everything
Date: Tue, 30 May 95 12:51:28 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Time Changes Everything
Forwarded-by: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: cate3@netcom.com
I never thought the mails were that slow until I got a postcard
from Cairo, and there were only two pyramids in the picture.
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I never realized how long I had been away from the Pacific Northwest (where I
went to college in the 60s) until, as I was flying back to Portland (OR) a few
years ago, staring out the window at all the familiar sights, noting all the
subtle changes, I suddenly realized that the mountains didn't look right - you
could see how they had worn down and weren't the same shape or as tall as they
had been (well, one of them anyway) ...
- Peter Langston
© 1995 Peter Langston