Subject: sricks & stones
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 03:52:16 GMT
Can you tell us, Jake, which sex is Esme in the Saki
story? I could never understand why Salinger used what
I would have assumed was the male version of Esmee -
which isn't all that rare. There used to be an actor
in British films called Esme (I've forgotten his surname)
but he looked distinctly froglike in both senses of the word.
There was a time in the distant past when my one sole
cousin was a girl called Esma. She won the battle for
the affections of my grandmother - a creature as repellant
as herself - & for the past fifty years I haven't had the slightest
knowledge or interest in what happened to her.
Come to the think of it, the only Jake I ever knew
personally (apart from the hero of The Sun Also Rises)
was a grand uncle whose one claim to fame in our
small Scottish town was that he'd taken an active part
in the great San Francisco earthquake of 1900(?).
Scottie B.
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