Subject: Re: hapworth 23??
From: Ingo Kraupa (bananafish@bitte.net)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 11:08:32 GMT
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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