From: Gary S. Gevisser [gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 6:51 PM
To: 'Mark James'
Cc: rest
Subject: RE: Ref - Sea crest

 

Dear Margaret,

 

I am under the gun right now and so I will be typing rather fast as I have at least 3 other emails to get out within the hour having already put in my two for the day in front of a computer screen.

 

Mark James’ e-mail is one of the 20,000 that I recently deleted and for that I must apologize. I am very dependant on my computer system to get my “road show” into high gear to mention little of the impact of certain things slipping in between cracks. My overriding concern though is to make certain nothing gets lost in the translation as I go about expanding my audience which requires that I listen ever so carefully to what others have to say.

 

When I was first introduced to my “travel companion” who also happens to be my “significant other” commonly known as Marie I was told by my lawyer-pal at the time, King Golden Jnr, Esq. that Marie was a “witch.” Now that didn’t alarm me since I always knew my mother was a witch coming from a line of people who communicated with the dead and God only knows what else although my mother would consider herself “orthodox Jewish.” Moreover being raised in Africa witch doctors were abundant and this was not something one could blame on the white settlers perhaps the only thing. And of course there are exceptions to any rule and why one shouldn’t paint with a  broad brush.

 

Nevertheless to cover myself I began calling Marie “Tokalosh” which is the word I understood meant witchdoctor in Zulu. It may not in fact be correct but it is something which seems to have stuck with Marie who has a habit of sticking to her knitting, not interfering in other peoples business but every so often I drag her into mine which sometimes has her then casting a spell on me.

 

Her ten-year-old boy just the other morning was looking at my computer screen and commented, “Gary, why don’t you spell things correctly. It would save you using the “sic”?” The day before Marie arose as she always does with a beautiful smile on her face and commented, “I may be Tokalosh but you talk-a-lot.”

 

It was the morning I went to have a chat with Jonathan’s school principal to see what she thought of my next moves and to test out whether or not I am equipped to reenter the world of wheelers and dealers taking however, just a miniscule of profit. I have taken a relatively long sabbatical while pondering the problems of the world most importantly why small businesses cannot compete and the odds of success are less than going to Las Vegas which is where a lot of successful people go to when deciding that the federal and state governments haven’t taxed them enough, although in places like South Africa it was a way to avoid paying taxes by the rich.

 

An expression I picked up from my step-father who likes to gamble at the “tables” and who helped build up a fair sized clothing company in South Africa from scratch that launched many a “dis-h-abled” [sic] career is, “When I make a mistake I pay for it and when you make a mistake you pay for it.” I think I have finally worked out a number of things including coming up with my version of unified theory of the workings of the universe although I simply borrowed a little expression from Einstein commonly known as e=mc² which works wonders, mostly though within spaceship earth but starts to collapse as one starts to examine the cosmos ever more carefully.

 

One though has to start small and make sure that no one gets lost along the way, that is the children of course. Most adults by the time they reach age 22 are essentially worthless in terms of their ability to figure things out for themselves and why those who make it are not necessarily the smartest, have little or no inventiveness but have the “gift of the gab” to market the product, leverage other peoples ideas, use other peoples’ money and most of the time as we all know the greatest fortunes have been stolen.

 

I only started speaking at age 3 and when I first met Marie one of the things she said she liked about me was that I spoke little and when I did I sometimes made sense. You have to understand Marie is a rather precise person. Not only can she compute better than your average high school math teacher but she understands proportions and has maintained a rather well proportioned body despite approaching the half centennial mark give of take a decade or tTOo.

 

For sum reason whenever things get a little too close to home I resort to compromise wanting to avoid the possibility of offending. Lately though I have figured out that little or nothing is served in mincing words, dotting “is” and crossing “ts” and there really is nothing wrong in teasing those who have played it fast and loose even if they happen to be family members and the last thing I intend to do right now is define the word, “family.”

 

The bottom line is that I generally react like a bat out of hell when someone even attempts to interfere with my brain sequencing and of course the more intellectual one is the more likely you might resort to such moves especially if you have been on the receiving end of my “bat e-mails” which come in the form of knuckleballs. You would just need to have been on my E-mail list since December 1st 2001 to appreciate how mean I can get once someone plays it fast and loose with me.

 

I tTOo began my most recent little project with the scratchings you see on the home page of NextraTerrestrial. Not much has changed on this website over the course of the past 6 odd months other than a hyperlink or tTOo that is all geared toward getting folks to focus on things that matter.

 

The game of chess is pure mathematics very different to sowing a garment which requires quite some dexterity to mention how little brain power one really needs to drive something like a clothing factory, not to suggest that Alan Zulman, my step-father, wasn’t intelligent. He happens to be probably above average in terms of IQ which is considerable when one considers that most South Africans I knew growing up were mostly brain dead. Alan though ran the factory while his partner Abe Dubin took care of marketing and sales.

 

Marketing is as close as it gets to science with most people who are in business agreeing that sales is more art form than it is science. Eventually they brought in outsiders who played along. When, however, it came time to settle their differences, bank accounts to boot it would have taken a team of more than brain dead South African accountants to figure things out given the fact like with most clothing companies the ones doing all the knitting didn’t quite benefit as much as those who traveled overseas stealing other peoples ideas while setting up foreign bank accounts subjected to little if any taxes.

 

Even if one has a legitimate excuse that one is hell bent on dying the richest person in the grave it is still an excuse. I am not quite sure though how I am going to pay for my computer system being overloaded but in the end I know it will all balance out. For all I know when I recently deleted the cluster of emails I may have in fact blown away offers from folks wanting to make a contribution to our many causes in fact I know I did. They were, however, slowing down my computer although I cannot say for certain exactly what has been the cause of my computer constantly crashing. It doesn’t however, seem to be bug.

 

I don’t think Mark James has been on my email list and therefore he may not have read about some of the projects I am involved with but suffice to say the emails that had stacked up over a year or so included mark’s original email with your letter that spelled out clearly how on top of the situation you would be as manager of my bed and breakfast café although I understand that in order to run a bed and breakfast one is supposed to live on the premises and of course I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find someone responsible to live on the premises when there are guests staying there that would place us in compliance with the authorities as well as the spirit of the law. In the meantime I did go ahead and hire David and Neil and my hope is that they will not only continue to use your baking services but when need be and if you are so inclined to get you to help during the busy periods.

 

I will be watching the situation more closely then I did when the previous manager wrecked havoc with the place which now affords me the opportunity not only to shake Mr. Knights’ bells all the way Timbuktu while doing a detour through Memphis but it allows me also to send a series of messages to my would be adversaries to “watch out” that no evil is too small a project for me to address as in, I detest those who derive great satisfaction in exceeding the limits of their small authority, i.e. evil doesn’t come in the form of a pointed tail and pitched fork.

 

The instant we allow anyone to get away with nonsense we are in fact doing nothing more than allowing them to plough the land to seed apples of discontent and the more they plough, the more they think they own the land the most likely they will turn those ploughs in to weapons of mass destruction, swords to boot. I somehow manage to find a way to turn negatives into positives and in those instances where I have had a positive like yourself to begin with and I fail to take immediate advantage it is generally just a matter of time before I find an open space to place the positive which attracts like kinds.

 

I have written at length about the game of soccer being all about understanding the “negative space” on a field where the ball is no where to be found but those operating in this area are generally the ones who come out of nowhere and find themselves in a pivotal position to either win or save the game. Most great discoveries have come from folks way out in left field, doodling sometimes I assume even sitting on the toilet thinking about all the kuka they have accumulated over their life time that now makes their buns burn.

 

With that said, I always try and look for a win-win situation in everything I do.

 

Seacrest or Ccrest which is how I spell this incredible spot that the Costers were kind enough to sell to me in rather “trying” circumstances is as important to me as anything else that I am currently involved with. Some of the projects I am working on can in fact take one’s breath away just as this area did to me when I first visited it in December 2001 where they trusted me on my word that I would buy the place at their offering price even though I didn’t have but a few pounds in my pocket to mention little of no identification. Not only did the Costers take the property off the market they later without any further confirmation of who I was or knowledge of my rather considerable means later allowed me to stay with them as I “cooled my heals” having done more than just a little bit of walking around the neighborhood.

 

When I first ran across their place I was in fact well on my way to doing the 600 mile coastal walk although I had been mostly going back and forth in the forest between their property and Burgundy Chapel perhaps in preparation for this marathon event. A gentleman whose last name was Stewart while trying to guide me on how I could cut the walk in half by going cross country told me about the Coster’s place that he thought was still for sale. When I approached Ccrest I saw no sign since it was late at night and my teeth were beginning to chat a little with it being several degrees below freezing.

 

The rest is in fact all history. Although I stayed a couple of nights at the Costers I did in fact have another great location that afforded me to see both the sunrise and the sunset something I hadn’t done in quite a while. Whereas Ccrest is altogether invigorating some of the folks I am doing “battle with” are rather rapacious individuals who would probably prefer at this stage if I simply stopped breathing.

 

Unfortunately for them I happen to more than simply believe in God and know that only he can take the light out of me just like he alone is responsible for providing light. My hope though is that everything will balance out soon, that we will recognize the gifts each one of us has been given and together we can make this entire world to what it was in the beginning, a garden of Eden along with tremendous advances that have come with the Digital Age that empowers each and everyone of us to stand up knowing that what we have to say not only counts but we should be measured in our words.

 

I have developed along the way a numerological system that I refer to as Guidance tTOo or Next tTOo which is based on the word NEXTRATERRESTRIAL which is tied into the website Nextraterrestrial.com. I use it to help get folks on to a common footing beginning with the phrase “The meek shall inherit the earth.” I believe there are two words missing from Mathew 5.5 and they are what I believe constitutes what has caused man to go astray for some 2,000 years plus. It is my hope that the phrase The meek WITH TEETH shall inherit the earth will captivate folks to think differently and if someone else can come up with a system that better answers the $64,000 question then I will embrace their system of measuring words.

 

It is sticks and stone that break bones and of course we now know for certain that it is words that kill, that incite the masses to go to war although the masses have up until now had very little say in how much blood they will ultimately spill. As a general rule it is the poor who pay the biggest price but with the impending world wide depression and along with the Digital Age at our fingertips we have I believe one opportunity to bring balance to this world.

 

It is a battle that will have each and everyone on this planet hopefully spared but glued to their TV sets and computer screens as we at NextraTerrestrial take on the relatively few out of control rapacious individuals who alone are responsible for upsetting the balance of nature in their quest to die rich sucking up everything they can in their “accumulation campaign” using their ill-gotten gains to buy off politicians who then make the rules that keep the have nots from getting their share of the God’s spoils, the spoiled brats that they are.

 

Not much has changed from the days of Plato other than of course the Digital Age which mostly scares the hell out of those who do most of the lying, stealing and cheating. Margaret it may be tough at your age to even think about turning on a computer given all the other options you have including breathing in your beautiful surroundings but it is going to take some action by each one of us even if it means simply getting a son or a grandson to press the “send” button on an email saying, “Enough is Enough.”

 

My hope is that we will soon meet although I cannot promise when I will next be out in England. For starters I have lost my passport and the last thing I can think about right now is filling out paper work.

 

All the best to you and Mark.

 

Gary

 

 

 

 

From: Mark James [mailto:Mark.James12@btinternet.com]
Sent:
Monday, March 10, 2003 2:32 PM
To: Gary Gevisser
Subject: Fw: Ref - Sea crest

 

Regards.Mark

 

 

 

 

From: Gary S. Gevisser

Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:42 PM

Subject: RE: Ref - Sea crest

 

Mark. Can you please send it to me again. Thank you. Gary

 

 


From: Mark James [mailto:Mark.James12@btinternet.com]
Sent:
Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:31 AM
To: Gary Gevisser
Subject: Ref - Sea crest

 

Hello there,

 

I am worried that you may have not recieved the e-mail that I sent on the 20th February for my Nan re SeaCrest.

 

Please could you possibly let me know if the word doc. arrived with you okay.

 

Thanks very much.

 

Mark.