Re: Proust 2000!

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:23:28 +0000 

    Proust in a year?  

    Cripes, have you any idea how it's going to feel
    around the end of February when you've just cleared 
    the foothills, are hooking up the oxygen gear & trying 
    to decide where to establish FIRST Base Camp?

    I reached the summit just under a year ago, a blackened 
    hulk & dreadfully altered version of my former self.  
    When I think of 10 pages a day, my sphincters tighten 
    involuntarily, my legs cross & I have to go & lie down.

    The book resembles nothing so much as war - 
    as described by those who have been there: 
    a deliberately forgotten experience both unimaginably 
    awful yet hilariously & inexpressibly precious.

    How will the expedition be set up?  Would it be all right 
    if - having been given a route map & timetable - I could
    have helicopter privileges?  Dropping in from time to time
    with encouragement & tins of pemmikan for any survivors?

    Scottie B.