This is a post of Dicks from last fall, it just seems to fit. I've known
dick for the last 7 or 8 years, are paths may have also crossed when I was
younger. He used to live up here in the Portland area, has one of the
people that kept Club T MG alive at one point. He has many friends up in
this neck of the woods, and we will all miss him.
Lane
>From: DamitDick@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:25:51 -0500
>To: mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Measure of enthusiasism?
>Reply-To: DamitDick@aol.com
>
>There's been a certain amount of talk on this list recently about what
>constitutes an enthusiast. Now I've had one or more MGs continously since
>1960 (I currently have 7); been active in club activities for most of that
>time; been newsletter editor for more than one MG club; Showed MGs, Rallyed
>MGs, Autocrossed MGs and been a regular at GoFs and other mini-meets.
>
>I guess that qualifies me as an enthusiast in at least some peoples eyes. So
>let me share with you what the poet W. H. Charnock thought was an Enthusiast.
>
> THE ENTHUSIAST
> by W. H. Charnock
>
>One man I knew put all of us to shame,
>He drove the last decrepitude of cars
>And vilely drove, his head among the stars,
>Bemused with wistful dreams he could not name,
>For just one year the too-devoted flame
>Against all sense and nature in him burned,
>Then, penniless with riddled lungs, returned
>Him to the sanatorium whence he came.
>
>To him it all was paradise come true;
>Down empty roads he knew the vestal light
>Of daybreak after driving through the night,
>And slumbrous crimson winter dusk he knew,
>Small pubs on moorland heights, the patient queue
>For Silverstone, the wilderness of rain:
>All this he tasted once and not again,
>For whom life smiled awhile and then withdrew.
>
>But we, who shared with him that halcyon year
>And pulled his leg because he drove so badly,
>Remember how he took to laughter gladly
>And gave no sign at all and showed no fear.
>If he is wakeful yet, then may the dear
>And tuneless music of that engine note,
>Which charmed him so, into his silence float,
>And all his happy miles again be near.
>
>And if he sleeps, then somewhere may he wake
>And find a wheel to hold, a road to take.
>
>
>
>Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
>
>Dick:>)
>Vintage Parts & Products
>Camarillo, CA
>Have MG will travel
>
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