Re: Unsubscribing
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:10:44 +1000
Yeah, Will, my boyfriend is pretty much the original phony-basher, an
excellent example of what we call in Australia a well-tuned `bullshit
detector' (crucial for detecting submerged irony (: ). To sound utterly
snobbish about it, I've tried to go out with philistines before and
it just hasn't worked at all, I can't bear not having the mental challenge.
But it's true. When I first started with Bananafish I remember a lot of
people chided me for going out with someone who didn't like TCIR. But one
lone voice said `Good on you, for not letting something as minor as that
get in the way. And good on him, for having the guts to say what he
believes in'. I recall you saying that your wife is a dance critic and
you've agreed to just disagree on that topic (and as an aside, I'm with ya
on that one (: ) Seems like a good policy to me.
BTW - as I was pondering Scottie's post, I realised how odd it is that only
a week or so ago he was disclaiming the psychiatric theories that classify
people into one of twelve different personalities. It seems a tad
hypocritical, then, to go right ahead and classify seventeen million people
into *one* personality type (:
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
> As always, Scottie has it all wrong--Camille, don't listen to the unhappy
> old farts on this list who dream of you. Your boyfriend sounds
cool--like
> me, he probably sees pigeons as flying rats and is one of those types
that
> always points to phoniness of the emporor's new clothes...I say keep him!
>
> Uncle Will
>
> (Captials for Scottie with Love and Squalor!)
>
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> >
> > Camille,
> >
> > When you get back from the Isle of Tuscany - or even
> > before you go - you should ditch that boy friend.
> > His image of Venice re-establishes at a stroke all
> > the brutish & insensitive associations with our antipodean
> > friends that you've done so much to demolish over the
> > past year.
> >
> > Scottie B.
> >
> >