Re: Final word on "becoming"

In a message dated 5/14/2001 4:02:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dbell@GRAYWIZARD.NET writes:


> Yeah, I'm happy to weigh in...what I meant by saying that Phoenix is still
> becoming is that the city is still in the process of giving birth to
> itself, becoming whatever it will eventually be. This is what makes it such
> an exciting, vibrant place, I think. Phoenix right now is where LA was in
> the forties and fifties. LA is now a dead city that lives on its history,
> but Phoenix is still a very happening place. It's on the edge of things,
> but the edge is always where the action is, never the center.
>
> I appreciate your interest in my work, and am very grateful that you and
> your friends cared enough to debate it.
>
     I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!  Well, it looks like it's about time for me
to give up on English.  I think Hawaiian will be my new first language from
now on.

-David