And hello to you too


Subject: And hello to you too
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 18:28:41 GMT


    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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