Fw: Franny sectioned

Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:08:33 +1000

> My sweet God, Scottie, do you know I was about to post an absolute
> duplicate of this post in my own words, and it was to be preceded with
the
> words `Scottie, you're going to hate this, but ...' ??? (: I wish I could
> take this post literally, because it certainly embodies my attitude to
> literature but, having become attuned to your custom made brand of
sarcasm,
> I must sadly admit that I know it to be a fraudulent piece of pastiche.
> 
> But Anna, if you'd like to take it literally please re-copy the message,
> put my name at the end and insert a couple of these (: (backwards of
> course, in my inimitably infantile attempt at originality) to distinguish
> my post from Scottie's.
> 
> If on the other hand my cynicism needs to be yanked back onto its choke
> chain (as it so often does) Scottie - I applaud your open mindedness.
> Unfortunately, I doubt it.
> 
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> 
> Scottie, amazingly, wrote:
> >     '... Until JD Salinger shows up on my doorstep with the answer ...'
> > 
> >     But, Anna, even when - to your lifelong amazement - you open
> >     the door & find that elderly grey face, smiling, anguished, telling
> >     you you were mistaken it won't make a damned bit of difference.
> >     As the francophiliacs of the list - in their hundreds -  will
remind
> >     you: what the writer intended or thinks he intended or thinks
> >     he remembers intending is of microsopic interest.
> > 
> >     Your interpretation is every bit as valuable as the next chap's.
> >     If Franny's pregnant as far as you're concerned then Franny's
> pregnant.
> >     And to hell with Salinger.
> > 
> >     Stick with it, baby.  Don't take no shit.  From no white man.
> > 
> >     Scottie B.
> > 


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