From Golden Girls To Gatsby via Buffy...

Dear Juliet

Just watched that Golden Girls DVD, and it brought back memories of Point Lobos. Amidst everything else, I was able to see the show at the Hyatt Carmel Highlands for the first time in years and in a small way it really helped make the trip.

Sadly, Betty White lived in Carmel, wanted to go back there from L.A. for her last days and couldn't manage it.

You'll be all right. You'll make it.

And if you're thinking of Buffy, although the odds are against us and the situation is grim, I'd say there is a way back if cast and fans club together. I'd just want to check the lost story arc cuts the mustard and stress the necessity of everyone speaking with one voice.

The Fargo Farrago plus foreword sums everything up, and oddly enough the thing to remember is that there's no pressure. A book (or in this case, four novellas and a novel) is forever. Fifteen or sixteen years is nothing to it. I occasionally make the point that The Great Gatsby was a failure upon first publication and fell into obscurity for about fifteen years before cheaply being republished for American troops in World War Two, radically reassessed and recognised as a literary masterwork.

There is still time, we need not burn in the fire.

Someone even gave Roses and Redemption kudos the other day!

There is hope. There is a way out.

A future still as bright as maybe it's been in your dreams.

Love,

James