Another indication here that Marcy loved her contact lenses. I wonder what happened that led her to switch back to glasses a few years later.<\/p>\r\n
Interesting to me to see her attempts at connecting with guys. “this guy never has heard of some of the most important people in my world, never read some of the\u2014most, all, I guess, of the most important books there are to read, nor seen any of the films that have been meaningful to me, nor appreciated anything other than a limited stratum of light classical music. A fine mind just going to waste, really sad.”<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n sunday night\r\n [pencil: 10\/31\/65]\r\n\r\nHello, hello. time really flies; 'tis a week already and\r\nthen some (ah, yes: daylight saving ended last night, just\r\nto satisfy something you asked long ago.) since I spoke to\r\nyou; have been busy and moving and etcetera every night,\r\nwithout even time to wash my hair all week, let alone sit\r\ndown by myself for a few hours and dig into some\r\nmuch-delayed correspondence. Today I finally answered an\r\ninvitation for thanksgiving dinner from the family of some\r\nstudent I don't know but who found my name in the record and\r\nnoticed that I lived near them; would have been great to go,\r\nbut have already planned to go to San Francisco that weekend\r\n(have that friday off, without pay) and figure we can make a\r\nprofit on the deal if we take paying riders\r\n\r\nNot going to get a phone; will send back the $10 pretty\r\nsoon---like, they insist that I be here when the man comes\r\nto install thetthing, but they can't give me any more of an\r\nidea when he'll come than a 4-hour time span....or they\r\ncould install it on saturday, but their saturdays are booked\r\nup about 3 weeks ahead, and by then I'll be nearly gone.\r\n\r\nNo; have not yet got either last qtr's grades or the $50\r\ndeposit; the latter should be around sometime next week. no\r\ntelling about the former.\r\n\r\nThe bike is great; I'm really independent, can travel all\r\nover the place--down by the ocean, along the beach, etc, etc\r\n\r\nHave been taken out to dinner xxxxxx twice this week. Once\r\nby a young man who lived in the same apartments I was in\r\nlast month--a kind of junior executive type who seems to\r\nthink I'm tremendous though he's hardly an intellectual\r\nstimulation and is interested in exactly nothing I care\r\nabout. He has a triumph (sportscar) which is very nice, and\r\nrigged an xxx fm antenna for my radio (The beach is very low\r\ncompared to the rest of the city, and radio reception quite\r\npoor)---tho I hate to turn away free dinners and rides to\r\nxxxx places I'd never get to see, I would rather spend my\r\ntime reading or looking at the ocean than trying to think up\r\nthings to say to someone I have nothing to say to.....the\r\nother young man is a student who works for a gas station\r\nnearby--I'd stopped there several times to ask directions\r\nand we got to talking. We go for bike rides along the beach\r\nand talk about politics and Zen, but--such barriers! I learn\r\nthe hard way that not all intelligent people are\r\nintellectual or well-read; this guy never has heard of some\r\nof the most important people in my world, never read some of\r\nthe xxxx--most, all, I guess, of the most important books\r\nthere are to x read, nor seen any of the films that have\r\nbeen meaningful to me, nor appreciated anything other than a\r\nlimited stratum of light classical music. A fine mind just\r\ngoing to waste, really sad.\r\n\r\nWent up to Aunt Sara's for dinner Saturday, but had to leave\r\nquickly as Mary had to meet some people. We kind of invited\r\nourselves, but they were glad to see us...all in usual\r\nshape, Stelle a bit more relaxed with her x hearing aid, but\r\ncomplains of hearing noises and such. Oh, well, I suppose\r\nshe'd complain if someone gave her a million dollars and the\r\nwhole kingdom of Persia that the xxxxx taxes were too high\r\nand no one spoke enough english to understand her. Finally\r\nremembered to ask about Ruth and Peggy Price, and sure\r\nenough Peggy is in the city. Spoke to Ruth on the phone\r\nbriefly, then called Peggy and stopped to see her for a few\r\nminutes on the way to meet Mary's xxxx friends. She's a big\r\nwheel in the local peace movement, lives in Hollywood right\r\nnear a good friend of ours who used to go with Nan Meister\r\nand now goes to school in LA....will be a pleasure to get to\r\nknow Peggy, I think.\r\n\r\ntoday we just sat around and did nothing (Mary spends\r\nweekends here when she can)--it's so absolutely great to\r\nhave a place you like well enough to sit around and do\r\nnothing in, instead of having to get out before you go mad\r\nor something equally undesirable.....went to the art museum\r\nin the afternoon, then had chinese food for dinner at\r\nHermosa beach, where we like to go swimming. (sent you a\r\npostcard from there) Chinese food around here is so cheap\r\nand so good that it's almost as sensible as cooking your own\r\nmeals. I've been eating enough x of it to come out of my x\r\nears these past 2 weeks, but won't have had too much for a\r\ngood while to come, I think.\r\n\r\nso. take care; hope the contact lens is working out alright.\r\nhave faith, Daddy: you just have to keep at and you have to\r\nwant it to work, x and that's about 99% of the battle won\r\nalready. I don't know how I survived with glasses all these\r\nyears. How\/what are the Sachses doing?\r\n\r\n take it easy,\r\n\r\n [handwritten: love, Marcia]\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Postmark: Nov 1, 1965, Torrance, Calif. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this Wed. 11\/3” and “Wrote to M 11\/11\/65” and “Get Ambodryls?”<\/p>\r\n
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