Re: JD(for the record) ;)

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:03:40 -0800 (PST) 

19 year old Asian living in California hoping to
transfer to NYU in fall of 2000:) Happy __________
(fill in the blank)!

--- Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote:
> At 2:10 PM -0800 on 12/23/1999, you wrote:
> 
> > I have a question, have any of you ever written
> JD? I
> > know, I know, he doesn't like the public but does
> he
> > have an address? Just wondering. Or has anyone
> written
> > Vonnegut and gotten a reply? I don't know. This
> whole
> > email thing is good but I really like the idea of
> > being able to touch the paper where the letter is
> > written.
> 
> It's very ... strange ... to hold in your hand a
> letter from someone 
> you admire and to figure out how it got to you.  I
> swapped several 
> letters with Kurt Vonnegut a couple of years back,
> and had one reply 
> from Salinger on a matter completely unrelated to
> Vonnegut, something 
> I treasure and cherish and all that, and wouldn't
> sell if I were down 
> to my last pair of shoes.  (And no, I didn't make my
> Salinger 
> envelope look as if it had been written by an
> 18-year-old girl, so 
> get that look out of your eye, you in the corner! 
> 8-)  I'm not an 
> autograph collector; I just write a lot of letters,
> some of which are 
> between me and other writers or people in the
> creative business.
> 
> > And also are all of you people like neighbours or
> > something, you all seem to know each other quite
> > intimately ...I mean the few people who actually
> write
> > on this list seem that way.
> 
> A couple of us live in New York City and surrounding
> areas, but we 
> have active members from all over the world; the
> archives would show 
> better than I could tell.  It turns in a community
> of sorts, but one 
> can see how fragile that "community" is when
> something goes wrong and 
> people get into a spat.
> 
> The funny part about it is that only a small core of
> the list writes 
> messages, but among the rest (population a little
> less than 300), 
> many, many people join with AOL screen names or with
> supplied names 
> that are variations on one or another Salinger
> character.  I gave up 
> counting a long time ago how many Zooey-variations
> we had!
> 
> We talked about a group of us meeting in NYC during
> the holiday 
> season, but we never really got it off the ground. 
> If you want to do 
> it, send me mail with this in the subject line:
> [MEETFISH] and I'll 
> make a little mailing list so that we can figure out
> something that 
> works for everyone.  Or if someone else feels the
> great urge to do 
> this, feel free to volunteer....
> 
> --tim
> 

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