I love Atlantic City. It's a fine resort, if you'll pardon the term. When I was a kid my family used to go to Atlantic City for two weeks at the beginning of July each year. My father had friends who lived in the inlet; they had an extra room that accommodated the four Freedmans. My father's friends owned a grocery store, The Blum Delicatessen, located on the ground floor of the house. It wasn't really a delicatessen through its early years, but in about 1969 Sylvia Blum Lischin introduced a deli at the back of the store. If you will permit me a remote association, I am reminded of Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. When the writer complained that Picasso's portrait didn't at all resemble her, he told her: "Someday it will." Eventually, The Blum Delicatessen came to deserve its name.
http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/01/blum-delicatessen.html
My sister and her fiancee now own a condo in Atlantic City, overlooking the beach. I've stayed there the last two summers. I'm looking forward to spending two weeks in Atlantic City this August. I plan to live modestly during my fortnight at the Jersey shore, practicing the usual things, but not striving. I like to spend my afternoons at the beach, taking a swim in the ocean, but not diving into deep water. Sometimes the rip tides at the Jersey shore can be deceptively fearsome. They can pull you under without warning with fatal consequences.
Yes, I plan to relax at the beach for two weeks in August, being careful not to dive into deep water. I am reminded of something that Freud once wrote in a letter to a friend about an anticipated vacation. "I think I shall try to live more like the Goyim—modestly learning and practicing the usual things, and not striving after discoveries and delving too deep." That was my problem at Akin Gump, by the way. I delved too deeply into things. I tended too much to go beyond surface appearances. I ended up attaching a meaning to trivial events. I should have lived more like the goyim, not asking questions -- not looking for discoveries. I ended up drowning in a sea of my own inferences.
On the issue of early July:
http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-four-miltons.html
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The Blum Delicatessen
I love that name. Harold Blum, MD, a psychoanalyst, is the current head of the Sigmund Freud Archives. I suppose you could call the Archives The Blum Delicatessen if you were whimsically inclined.
Roy and Edward Lischen were two of the Lischen boys, sons of Sylvia Lischin.
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