From: Gary S.
Gevisser [gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent:
To: 'Mike Sagorin'
Subject: RE: Sea Crest
Mike, nice to hear from a fellow skater.
Ordinarily I would start responding to anyone who I know is from Durban, South
Africa by beginning at the end since it is a safe bet they are “brainne dead” [sic] probably suffering from ADD and ending
with a knuckleball hoping that they would find it within themselves to respond
in kind.
To this day I am not quite sure how I
accomplished even getting through school let alone working out the mathematics
that would propel someone who has rather short legs to jump over things in an
area less than the size of an ice-hockey rink while the place mostly came alive
when I fell into the crowd. I can only put it down to being born hard of
hearing which no doubt also protected me from all the nonsense we were
subjected out of the rink that continues to resonate to this day.
I have received a number of emails which I
probably won’t be responding to although incredibly there have been no
further requests from anyone to be added to the “delete”
list. Deciding, however, to respond to you was made easy by virtue of the fact
that I remember both you and your brother rather well although I don’t
think you or I have ever spoken being that you were a few years younger than me
and as soon as I got my “wings”
I left Durban like a bat out of hell. Don’t get me wrong I think Durbs is
one of the most amazing places on this planet and it has nothing to do with our
incredible pot which had I known more about I certainly would have spiked the
food of each and every adult I came into contact with, the exception being Mr.
Braithwaite our Latin teacher and Mr. Fisher our Hebrew teacher who I assumed
was equally inspired by the Bay
of Plenty.
Suffice to say at this time do what you
think is best in terms of expanding our audience. At a minimum please continue
to check in at the www.nextraterrestrial.com
website. In due course I will be communicating with Professor Bernie Black of
When all is said and done the truth will
set each of us free but getting to the truth is like peeling an onion and as
you may know the best place to place an onion before cutting in to it is to let
it spend some time in the freezer. Do you have any idea how many ice-ages there
have been since the beginning of time?
With that said, I have to question to what
extent you suffered from the farts of folks like Gunter Lazarus who sat
immediately behind you, your brother and I believe it was your father every
Friday Night at the synagogue on Silverton road.
Marilyn Silver was a good friend of mine
and when I first came to this country I stayed and worked with her brother who
remains very much in my life. Each and every quarter I receive a check from
Lionel for assisting him in a matter that took up no more than an hour of my
time. The return on that investment is pale, however, compared to what I got
out of spending time with Marilyn here in the States before she returned to
From: Mike Sagorin
Sent:
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Re: Sea Crest
Hello Gary.
(You're not the ex-ICE-SKATER from DURBAN are you? If so, how DID you manage to jump over those BARRELS like that?!!)
Am I supposed to be DOING anything with these emails? I'm afraid they've been directly to my "deleted items" folder!
Mike
