Subject: Re: An Elongated Introduction.
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 21:09:03 EDT
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 12:31:54AM -0700, Scout Thompson wrote:
> My name is Scout Thompson. I work in a bakery.
Welcome, Scout! I worked in a bagel bakery once. It was one of several
dozen jobs I've held down since I was 13. When I was 13 it was to earn
the money to buy books and go to the movies. Now it's to pay the bills
and eke out time to write.
I guess that what I mean to say is that when you describe yourself:
> I guess I have kind of got the opposite impression. I mean I'm a
> writer, by god, but I don't write hardly anything, excepting
> haiku-esque poetry in a small black book, and even that is just
> description of what I see out there outside my head.
... there is nothing wrong with that. A lot of us steal time from other
pursuits to populate our notebooks and legal pads and hard disks.
Nothing wrong with any of that. Nothing wrong at all. I hope you enjoy
your time with us!
> Anyway, I have written a three and a half page essay on Paul Alexanders
> Biography of Salinger; and I was tempted to send it to the list but was
> wondering if it is too long for the lists tastes. I've also submitted
> it to salinger.org....
Do you have a web site on which you can put it? If not, I wouldn't
mind reading it. But don't reply to this (the reply would go to the
entire mailing list); send it as plain text to my private address:
tim@roughdraft.org
Cheers!
--tim o'connor
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