Re: letter to Colin (a quick add on)
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 10:44:42 +1000
Steven T. Byrd wrote:
> don't be nice to please the people...angering the idiots is a deucedly
> noble profession, I agree...be nice because it is good and right. some
> people deserve vemon in their tea and spit on their burgers, I agree, and
> when it's proper, hand it out. this? this was somewhat beyond the call of
> duty, champ.
I agree. Nice is over-rated. We wouldn't have Sylvia Plath's `Ariel', or
any Swift, or any Patrick White if Nice wasn't a devalued currency. Having
said that, I would rather my bananafish be a generally Nice rather than
Nasty place. (Perhaps what I am saying is that Art is allowed to be Nasty
and bananafish isn't Art (: ) And I agree that nothing here should be
personal - I regard you guys as colleagues and occasional intellectual
sparring partners but let's not go insulting each other's mothers, OK ?
P.S. Another Get Well card for Tim and his poor Uncle Wiggily (:
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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