Re: It didn't work
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:00:37 -0700
Mort Sahl (isn't he dead?) wrote:
> I had a plan to get a Salinger autograph. I sent an restricted certified letter to
> his address. Certified letter have to be signed. Restricted certified have to be
> signed for by the addressee. Cost me $2.40 in postage. Anyway, he refused it. That's
> what I expected, so I wasn't too upset.
>
> But I got to thinking. Who alive would not be a least curious enough to sign for
> a personal certified letter? when I get those yellow slips in mail that's all I can
> think about until I can go pick it up. It's an event. So - even thought Salinger
> and I are both more or less hermits, we apparently are also very different in many
> ways.
Yes, but are you a published and well-known author? He's probably had ploys like that
every day for the last forty years. It probably ceases being an event when you realize
that it's just another stranger who wants you to do something that no matter how nominal
it is, is something that they can turn around and sell.
Malcs