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Linz, that is so very beautiful an article. Thanks for bringing tears to my eyes.

Barbara

Post 1

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 1:41am

I second that, Barbara. This is stirring stuff, Linz, and worthy of Ingersoll himself.

Post 2

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 1:41am

I second that, Barbara. This is stirring stuff, Linz, and worthy of Ingersoll himself.

Post 3

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 7:31am

Thanks, Linz, for your beautiful article. It lightens up my day!

Now off to attack the turkey...

Post 4

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 12:26pm

Derek, I think post 2 should read, "I third that Barbara" :-)

Therefore, I fourth that Barbara.

Thanks Linz, you have finally given this American tradition a worthy meaning.

Post 5

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 1:41pm

Bravo! I'll drink to that.

Post 6

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 1:54pm

I am now hiding in the study, reveling in a moment of silence. Sadly, the tryptophan seems to have had little effect on the children. I was so counting on that.

The champagne has helped me tremendously, however. ;) On to dessert and full-contact Trivial Pursuit...

Thanks for an excellent article, Linz. Its message will help me to endure the next few hours. HA!

(Edited by Jennifer Iannolo on 11/25, 1:56pm)

Post 7

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 4:40pm

Linz,

Your article was the perfect after-dinner snack for the brain. I wish you had posted it earlier, since I often get the inspiration for the menu from pre-thanksgiving writings. Not having had yours, I took my inspiration from Paul Kutz's editorial in Free Inquiry: "America is best understood as a universal culture." So our American turkey was stuffed with ham and Chinese water chestnuts, its skin crisped with Italian olive oil, served with Korean giant white radish slices and Turkish pepper-cured olives; we drank Israeli Moscato and finished with cheeses from Finland and Mexico.

If you read "Trinity" on ejectejecteject.com, you may have noticed this: "This one is for us. Americans. This includes all you Americans living in foreign lands with foreign passports, speaking foreign languages and holding foreign citizenships. You know who you are. If you�re an optimist, if untrammeled freedom makes you giddy, if you think you know of a better way to do something and just want a chance to try, if you can tell right from wrong and still care about the difference, if you�re soft hearted and tough minded, if you think we could all get along just great if we�d all just leave each other alone, if you don�t like to fight but know sometimes you just have to, and most especially, if the idea of leaving the huddled masses and joining the pursuit of happiness has a mystical appeal for you, then you are already an American in your heart. Welcome home."

Welcome Home, Linz. You're the best American here.

Post 8

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 9:16pm

Adam wrote:

"Welcome Home, Linz. You're the best American here."

I can't begin to say how thrilled I am by that compliment. I am over the moon about it. What with this, and bringing a tear to Barbara's eye, and the other comments here, I can know my brief article of thanks accomplished its mission.

Funnily enough, I have just literally arrived home after a week away. As my flight neared completion, I looked out at the wings & thought of my article. "What a piece of work is man!" I thought of playing the two Tosca arias I mentioned as soon as I walked in the door. I thought of what one of Lanza's conductors said, in *condemnation* of him - "The guy did the craziest things. He would take his kids to Rome airport & sit for hours with them just watching planes take off & land." And I thought, the hour of NEM is young.

And so it is.

But here we are.

Linz

Post 9

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 10:25pm

Beautiful, and beautifully moving, Linz.

Keep writing like this and you may even be forgiven by the hordes of people you have driven up the wall over the years!

Post 10

Friday, November 26, 2004 - 1:42am

A beautiful day with my partner, Sergio, and his son. A traditional turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes, etc. dinner which I prepared ( not bad, but not Jennifer, I am sure - both Sergios said it was "beddy, beddy good"..). Great music (Shostakovich, Evgeny Kissin playing Chopin, a little Bjorling). And now this beautiful article and a reminder that my new Solo friends are another great reason this year to celebrate my amazingly "rich" life.
Lindsay, America is an idea and a spirit. You completely grasp the idea and, as much as anyone I know, you exemplify the spirit. Thank you for this cherry on my Thanksgiving Sundae.

Post 11

Friday, November 26, 2004 - 6:42pm

Thanks Lindsay for a taste of soaring goodness and to my solo colleagues who match him; it all gave me a happy giddy feeling.

Michael

Post 12

Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 3:31pm

What a wonderful article to see on the Solo homepage.

I just posted a new thread in the general forum on this theme, and I think it crossed with this article. If I had seen it, I would have saved those sentiments for this thread.

Wonderful writing, Linz. Both Kat and I salute you and all of Solo in this spirit today.

Michael & Kat

Post 13

Friday, November 25, 2005 - 3:04am

I have had one Thanksgiving in the USA and I was grateful then as I am now for the USA.

Thank you Lindsay for such a poignant and passionate expression of all that is beautiful about what SOLO is about. This evening I will have a drink to think of you, SOLO, the USA and all that is the wonderful creation of man.

Post 14

Friday, November 25, 2005 - 4:15am

Thank you Scott, especially for your identification of the fact that this article, incidental to its tribute to heroes past & present, captures the quintessence of SOLO. Indeed it does. No grandstanding purveyors of moral equivalence who bitch about the "bickering" their grandstanding engenders can, or will, take that away from SOLO. Not while I have breath in my body & total passion for the total height oozing from my every pore.

Linz

Post 15

Friday, November 25, 2005 - 10:56am

Thanks, Linz. American Solo readers (myself included) ought to offer you the title "honorary American."

I was moved by your article -- all the more because I spend so much time on a campus polluted with anti-Americanism.

Thanks again for your beautiful thoughts.

Post 16

Friday, November 25, 2005 - 1:48pm

Marty�thanks for the compliment of "honorary American." As I commented to Adam further up, nothing thrills me more, knowing what that compliment means. Let me return it by saying�if I had to nominate people I regarded as quintessential SOLOists, you'd be right up there.

(I hope you see that as a compliment! :-))

Hang in there on that polluted campus. As you know, most of them are like that nowadays. But it won't be like that for ever. It's you & other noble souls like you who will see to that!

Linz

Post 17

Friday, November 25, 2005 - 5:42pm

Happy Thanksgiving, Linz.
(The leftovers are the best part, and here we have an article from last year to warm up.)

SOLO is one of the things that I am thankful for.

Post 18

Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 2:26am

Linz: I'm honored by your statement:

if I had to nominate people I regarded as quintessential SOLOists, you'd be right up there.

SOLO is great, and so are you.

Thanks for your encouragement. I shall not waiver in the campus battle for the minds of men. Long live reason and freedom.

Post 19

Friday, November 23, 2012 - 6:41am