Re: lack of schooling
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:44:40 -0500 (EST)
Two replies:
1. I stand corrected re: LeCarre's education. What were his subjects in
those schools, and did they have Anything to do with literature? Perhaps
he was just being quoted after reading a particularly Ignorant review of
his work and was speaking out of frustration? Because his **comment**
was still so inaccurate it's virtually inexcusable.
2. Yeah, good visual image, I've had athsma since I was three :)
Jim
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:35:39 +0000 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
>
> '...Those are the rantings of an uneducated, though successful,
> fiction writer...'
>
> heh, (as Jim diffidently writes - but which for me always
> conjures up the image of a poor chap in the grip of terminal
> bronchiectasis)I don't think so.
>
> 'John le Carre: ....educated Sherborne School, Berne University &,
> after military service, Oxford. He taught French & German for
> two years at Eton School before going into the British Foreign
> Service as second secretary in Bonn & consul in Hamburg.....'
>
> Biased, narrow-minded, snobbish, politically incorrect - possibly.
> But 'uneducated' - no.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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