Re: RESPONSE TO:Response to Scottie's letter to Jocelyn
Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
im really sorry, Paul, but you ARE losing it (the final proof: trying to
explain S's suicide for your wife of all ppl)
/TLM
PS This subject-line is getting better by the minute
>From: kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul Kennedy)
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: RESPONSE TO:Response to Scottie's letter to Jocelyn
>Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 05:53:33 -0400 (EDT)
>
>AHHHHHHHHHHH!
>
>A guy goes away for a weekend at Otter Lake (where Thurber and White got
>drunk one night, and tried to sneak a stolen dinner bell across the widest
>stretch of water--which bell is probably STILL somewhere on the bottom of
>Otter!, bottomfishers....), which is the "Canadian" equivalent of Walden,
>thankyou very much (although it would take more than a million 'Meruhcan
>dollars to take me down that PARTICULAR Leacockian thread.... I SHOULD try
>to apologize for Celine Dion, if I can, though.... While taking credit for
>Joni Mitchell.... And wondering why no one else knew that Leonard Cohen was
>half Catskills and half Charles Baudelaire.... Maybe Scottie's right after
>all?)....
>
>What do I find?
>
>Camille is back. (I'd seen her get off the bus, having mentioned
>Shakespeare even before I did, much to my subsequent chagrin.... It was
>painful to learn that this was a widely-known distant early warning
>syndrome
>for the dreaded Creeping Sectionmania Syndrome.... I'm due to die within a
>week.... So say nice things about and to me, if you can....) The
>aforementioned Scottie is back in full form. (And did I hear the good
>doctor implying that bananfish are basically writers-in-training? ...with
>a
>corollary diagnosis prescribing Introspection rather than Healthy Doses of
>Tolstoy, during a personal reading of fishbowl scripture that was
>characteristically profound.... After which he limped off into the sunset,
>looking for all the world like Gary Cooper in some black and white
>western....) And there's an erudite and witty response from somebananafish
>named Jonathan, whom I've never met but KNOW I should.... I just don't
>know
>how to say "hello" in true Canadian English.... (Oh shit, I should also
>apologize for Pacey from UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE--which is an
>admirably common Canadian expression for various fishes to feed on....)
>
>Will, I believe, should be back from Tuscany (where, no doubt, he nibbled
>little tidbits of boticelli bananafishfood from the bottom of the Arno....)
>any instant, if he's not already back and moving east from Colorado even as
>I type.... I'm also eager for his return, because I'm looking forward to
>taking him to a World Series Game in the Skydome this October....
>
>I think I'm losing it. I tried to explain Seymour's suicide to my wife
>this
>weekend, up at Otter, and for a while I think she thought I was talking
>about a real person who once worked at my radio station....
>
>Speaking of which, it's almost time to go....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul
>
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