The Investigations of Avram Davidson
“FOLSOM FEELS FINE “MR. FOLSOM FEELS FINE” was published in 1986, during the period in Avram Davidson’s life when he wrestled with the Veterans Administration to secure his meager pension.
What is the secret of a successful retirement? Some point to sound health and good medical care, others point to a solid portfolio of investments and pension benefits. But Mr. Folsom found another direction. He followed the trail to Gunk Up High, and the notorious illegal bush-wax trade. Beware.
—GD Some people can handle foreign travel, whereas others simply can’t. Some can go live in a Himalayan satrapy so remote that it is not perceived on maps more than once in a century (and even that once it appears sketchily in some learned journal showing the distribution of its thirty-seven species of venomous earwigs)—can go live in it and do just fine, riding the small fur-bearing ponies as though they’d been hired for twenty minutes at a fun park and eating the roast slugs as though they were Mighty Max... Burgers, whereas there are those who get ptomaine or its latest equivalent from a tortilla chip three feet south by southeast from the border of the U.S.A.MoreLess
What is the secret of a successful retirement? Some point to sound health and good medical care, others point to a solid portfolio of investments and pension benefits. But Mr. Folsom found another direction. He followed the trail to Gunk Up High, and the notorious illegal bush-wax trade. Beware.
—GD Some people can handle foreign travel, whereas others simply can’t. Some can go live in a Himalayan satrapy so remote that it is not perceived on maps more than once in a century (and even that once it appears sketchily in some learned journal showing the distribution of its thirty-seven species of venomous earwigs)—can go live in it and do just fine, riding the small fur-bearing ponies as though they’d been hired for twenty minutes at a fun park and eating the roast slugs as though they were Mighty Max... Burgers, whereas there are those who get ptomaine or its latest equivalent from a tortilla chip three feet south by southeast from the border of the U.S.A.MoreLess
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