Re: And hello to you too


Subject: Re: And hello to you too
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 21:49:17 GMT


GOD you kill me, Scottie :)

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> Dr Rovira would have you believe that anyone
> who writes that way about himself must be in fact
> an exquisite, if antique, dish. Only a hunk, he wishes
> to imply, would possess the assurance to afford such
> an extravagant self- caricature.
>
> Well, Lucia, I’m afraid the cartoon is all too close to
> the grim reality. From behind that repellant mask,
> a Quasimodo Redivivorovirus peeps out, hoping against
> hope for one tiny sign of transforming love from his Esmeralda.
> But Quasimodo, alas, he’s condemned to remain.
>
> Cecilia will confirm all this. She has devoted much of
> the pious residue of her days in the convent to the Rovira charity.
> You’ll note that she never mocks or teases him & treats each
> of his weird caprices with a reverent, if somewhat unnecessary,
> solemnity. An angel, if ever there was one.
>
> The same girl will also confirm that any attempt to convey
> my own physical presence is quite futile. Neither old nor young,
> large nor small, my interlocutors have no idea – dazzled as they are
> by the black sun of my attention focused back like some terrible,
> loving eye upon themselves.
>
> An experience, Lucy, no one ever quite gets over.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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