• Re: Meeting Goldman's Researcher

    From RJKellog@yahoo.com@21:1/5 to Curt on Wed Jan 25 09:36:48 2023
    On Monday, January 9, 2006 at 2:48:08 PM UTC-5, Curt wrote:
    One moist winter evening as I ambled to the Quik-Mart for my morning
    nachos, I spied my old college buddy Don Josephson. Though we speak on
    the phone thrice daily, it's always a joy to see him. I hollered to
    Don, and we embraced with grunts of joy.
    Then I noticed her. The woman.
    She studied me, sized me up, her emerald eyes penetrating my soul in
    search of I knew not what. Apparently I passed muster, for she bowed
    and curtsied.
    "I'm Goldman's researcher," she announced. "I'm the one he sent to
    Japan."
    "In Japan, I found that John and Yoko's romance was a love affair of
    epic proportions. They rose with the sun each morning, gazed into each other's eyes, and sipped iced lattes. They bathed in magic water,
    prayed in ancient temples, inhaled the aroma of a thousand blooming
    bonsai. They dressed in antique kimonos, meditated on the teachings of
    the Dalai Lama, and knelt at the feet of Sai Baba. It was just like
    their interviews, only better!"
    "But Goldman would hear none of this. He crumpled my findings and made
    up from whole cloth steaming tales of Tokyo's 'red light' district.
    Japan, as everyone knows, is notorious for its homosexual male
    prostitutes. Guyshas. Goldman's reasoning was, 'Since there existed a
    "red light" district in Tokyo, John must have gone there, ergo the
    guyshas charmed John out of his kimono, ergo John ejaculated, ergo John
    ate ergot, extinguishing his ego.' But it's all Goldman's lurid
    imagination!"
    The woman's words electrocuted me. But my researcher's instinct
    briefly flickered to life, prompting me to ask: "If Goldman merely
    wanted to make things up, why did he send you all the way to Japan?
    Why did he hire you at all?"
    The woman paused. Her face scrunched. Her turquoise eyes darted back
    and forth, like carp in a silent pool. The city traffic grew louder,
    reaching a crescendo. Then there was silence, the most peaceful
    silence imaginable. The woman smiled enigmatically. "Goldman," she
    said, "works in mysterious ways."
    That did it! I could no longer question the woman's words! Her
    sources were firsthand. Her data were complete. She had given me
    proof.
    I hurried home in a state of euphoria, resisting the temptation to
    visit nightclubs pulsing with Yoko's latest #1 hits. I realized two
    things. One, I would never eat meat again. Two, anytime anyone asked
    of Goldman, I would recount my marvelous experience with the woman.
    Cynics may doubt that these events took place. Very well then. My
    friend Don is a regular at Pee-Wee's Comix in downtown NYC. He is
    fifty-four years, three months in age. He weighs 148,324.7 grams, and
    is 154.94 centimeters in height. He dresses in T-shirt and fashionable stained jeans worn round his midsection. On his neck (which is hairy),
    you will find a slightly tarnished platinum light saber pendant. Don
    is stylishly hunchbacked and proceeds with a shuffling gait. The sent
    you notice about him is Stouffer's pizza, pepperoni flavor
    (microwavable), available at Stop & Shop at $4.99 a pie. Don is hard
    to miss, should anyone wish to verify my words.
    Unfortunately, he died decades ago.
    And I never got the woman's name...

    Hmm, funny tale.

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