Subj : Peerless
To   : KEVIN GIBSON
From : LEE LOFASO
Date : Mon Jul 23 2001 06:33 am

Hello Kevin,

>LL>But being peerless is not necessarily a bad thing.

KG>Maybe it would be like surfing and one moment you're just
KG>one of a group of surfers bobbing up and down in the water.

KG>Then a big wave comes and everybody starts paddling madly,
KG>everybody's competing for "the wave."

KG>Suddenly, you look around to find you're out on the leading edge,
KG>alone, and not a pier in sight.  Just you and the wave...

Yeah.  The Ninth Wave.  What everybody strives for, but few
actually ride.  On the night of the California Democratic
primary in 1968, as the results became known, journalist
Stephen Cohen asked Sen. Robert Kennedy "Did you catch the
ninth wave?", referring to Kennedy's close victory over his
Democratic rival Hubert Humphrey in the primary.  Shortly
thereafter, Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, thus
putting an end to Kennedy's dream of Camelot.  So maybe it's
best not to catch that ninth wave after all...

KG>Oh, wait.  Would that be pierless?

Hmmm... Surfers need no piers to catch the wave...

--Lee


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