Re: hapworth 23??


Subject: Re: hapworth 23??
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 11:21:24 GMT


HA :)

Well, I stand corrected.

Jim

Ingo Kraupa wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm a new member on the list. Hello everybody. As I have just finished
> reading Hapworth for the very first time my excitement level on this
> heartrending topic is over average. Putting this excusement ahead I can't
> help to waste your time with some humble remarks on Jims slightly comical
> posting. However, before I start, let me frankly express my feelings to-
> ward this admirable chap, whose letters usually make me feel crappy and
> worthless considering my own penmanship.
>
> Jim, I utterly plea you to stop writing crap! I had lots of heartrending
> conversations about that topic, even with Miss Undergirl who you know as
> a valorous soufragette with her own little interpretation about the back-
> ground of the story published in the November issue of Playboy 1965, but
> anyone I spoke so far agreed about the parenthetical comments. These are
> all rumors! Please take your time to examine sorrowful all the printed
> pictures: the parentheses people interpreted in the poor girls fine body
> features are, as she willingly admits, old scarves she had since she can
> remember, but at least since her sevenths year of age when she went to a
> camp for herself. Plenty of old photographs donated by Mr. Sadly give an
> evidence about these once so fine marks.
>
> My admiration for Seymour is beyond hope. But this "parentheses" cam-
> paign is truly beyond redemption, for at least the following reasons:
>
> 1. There is no other written proof of parentheses in any other of Seymours
> poems, letters and diary notices.
>
> 2. There are only two pictures in the Playboy edition of Mrs. Sadlys
> breasts that don't even show the entire parentheses as a whole.
>
> 3. Even if the parentheses had been tatooed on Mrs. Sadlys breasts, as you
> say, there is no absolute evidence Seymour did it. As mentioned in Hap-
> worth, at the storys ending Buddy reappears, whose "sensuality began
> to flower at the same tender and quite premature age", Seymour here
> frankly admitted. Overall, considering the brothers state of mind at
> the time, there is a likelihood of Buddy himself finishing the letter
> properly.
>
> Putting this altogether, and suddenly feeling disposed, from head to toe,
> to feel harmony with these two outrageous and rather marvelous brothers,
> I wished to write a poem intimating that the one millionth bride at the
> Bananafish List had just playfully splashed a bouquet (containing a
> million glassy parentheses) right into Buddy Glass' heartrending face.
> Not a nice word, "marvelous", but it seems to suit.
>
> And finally: I would kindly ask the reader of this prose to forgive
> my indulgence. Though I know there are other ways than depend on ones
> own little brain to get things straightened, what can I tell but I just
> started English lessons a few weeks ago, and as this is my first ever
> written letter there is a thrilling demand in my egocentric soul to
> spread it out to a broad audience, uncensored. No day passes that I'm not
> aware of my rotten, demanding traits of character.
>
> Viele Grüße,
>
> Ingo, 5 Jahre
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:44:10PM -0500, Jim Rovira wrote:
> > It's actually a very long story that Seymour tatooed on a young female camp
> > counselor's butt when he was seven years old and at camp. The story was so
> > long, in fact, that it went far beyond her butt -- running down the back of
> > her right leg, up the back of her left leg, then wrapping around the front
> > of her left leg and going back down, hopping over to her right foot and
> > working itself up the front of her right leg afterwards. parenthetical
> > comments were tatooed on her breasts.
> >
> > It's only been published once, in Playboy magazine. It was actually
> > published as a unique front view/back view centerfold. To read the story,
> > you need a magnifying glass and lots of time.
> >
> > Jim
>
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