Re: not butter, guns

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> --- jason varsoke <jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ed Fenning wrote:
> > 
> > > Scottie -
> > > Well written.  It would be nice to get this into
> > someone's syndicated
> > > column over here.
> > > I'm sure the soldier, I mean lout in khaki, who
> > shot the pussy cat in
> > > For Esme With Love and Squalor, brought his
> > carbine home to suburbia,
> > > joined the NRA and built a Fallout shelter.
> > > 
> > > - Ed
> > 
> > Actually, Ed, I think he went on to tote a big gun
> > around Africa for a
> > while, bought a nice shack on Key West, and ended up
> > blowing his tonsils
> > out the back of his head with a double barrel.
> > 
> > -j
> 
> Jason -
> OH GOD did THAT one ring a bell.  I don't think I made the connection
> when I read the story.  I forgot ALL about Salinger meeting Hemingway
> in Europe for some reason- it this alleged, or was it witnessed; that
> Hemingway did something like that - took target practice at strays?

I believe he shot a chicken for no good reason but to demonstrate he was a
man.  As far as whitnessed, well I sometimes I think everything from that
era is just a wonderful myth.

-j

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