Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

writer John Updike wrote book "Terrorist"

just doesn't get it

if it happened in a poor neighborhood, I don't think you'd have anyone writing about it

it's class.

[both from] blue-blooded Kentucky families, husband and wife
Tried for sedition
bought a home and then resold it to a black couple
and convicted.
40 years.

[Regarding Jakob, helping him in every situation]

That is not showing love.

Love is a black man and woman
[having to teach their children to act subservient to whites to keep them from being killed]

A parent in the ghetto
[teaching children]
not messing with certain groups of kids

I'm afraid -- Dan's always upbeat -- that things will get so bad-- that he's just going to [be so down he won't be able to function]

Eva I have a lot of respect for
from time down there

I've told Eva (about Dan)-- don't coddle him too much.

Once someone gets away with bitching, it gets to be a habit

You know it's Eva whose trying to make sure Cassidy has [some connection to his Jewish roots]

Professor who lived near the Community -- I don't even know what he taught, I was that ignorant [of college and university that I didn't think to ask]

he used to really get me going
people who knew about teaching tried to tell me [he's just trying to get you going]
[me: Devil's Advocate]
but he'd get me every time
I'd be [ranting about something or other]

Their daughter, of the professor and his wife, joined the community-- only one from the area to do so
said she never paid attention to what her father and I had been going on about

Seattle, Washington. That's how I got to know so much about that town, it's idealism

And the connections, my god, the people had connections to the highest echelons of the powerful, like Boeing, that huge lumber company, ....

I bet 10, 10, and 10-- $10 to win, $10 to place, and $10 show.

[The intentional community in Georgia]

we went there to help poor people, a community of poor people with their own culture

[the others in the intentional community knew more, did more for the community of poor people]
and yet I was the one they felt the closest too. It was a question of background

they always felt I was one of them. And they respected me for that.

[helping, being tough]

Green bananas.

recollection by John Melançon

[The reason I know bananas are shipped here green and gassed to ripen them is that]
in one of my jobs in my youth I worked in the warehouse of probably A&P. So this was a Philadelphia warehouse for A&P and one of our jobs was to go around filling the orders for these stores-- not talking about six jars are something, but skids of stuff that fill up a truck.

Everything [was stored in huge warehouses, including for fruits and vegetables.]

The bananas were gassed there.

I hear Daniel screwed up on the drywall too, and needs Jakob to come do the work

two brothers from Canada did most of the installation in upstate new york, probably the whole state

the bar where I was bartender was their headquarters

representatives from the gypsum company, the huge manufacturer of drywall from the midwest, was meeting with the two brothers

and I was the raging star so everyone had to be introduced to me and so forth

the gypsum people were talking about this guy in finance that would crack them up taking these fake telephone calls