Thank you very much... :)
You know, it's funny, when I was looking up that quotation for Kim I
found myself thinking....this conversation in the bathroom just goes on
forever.
Not that I read it all. That's just how I felt flipping through it.
Jim
Scottie Bowman wrote:
> My weariness was with Salinger's assumption
> that a profusion of lists & details is somehow
> endearing & engaging, inviting us to ooh & aah
> & smile indulgently like a pack of Sunday afternoon
> visitors to the Regency Pavilion in Brighton.
>
> That's the Pavilion, right?
>
> The iceberg is where old Hem writes:
> 'You know how it is there in Havana in the early morning....'
> &, by visualising it so clearly in his own mind, has already
> - & magically - conveyed it to us without the need for further
> elaboration. (Though he does, in fact, add a couple more
> not strictly necessary details.)
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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