Re: a bed of nails

helena kim (helenak@geocities.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:35:56 +0000

> There don't appear to be 
>         too many Europeans on the list.  So that I come to it feeling 
>         something of an outsider


well, there's myself in dublin...


> >       including my present home in Cork, Ireland.  (As Thurber should
> >       have said: `We have O'Connors like other people have mice.')
> 
> Ah ... my family is in Kerry, where the O'Connors (my father's entire side
> still there) are everywhere you look.


two friends of mine, hardcore dublin urbanites, went on a week long
appropriation mission to amsterdam recently, where they met an american
tourist. he asked them if they knew 'the murphys from galway'.

i *know* there's only 3.6 million people in the country, but it's still
difficult to meet and greet them *all*.




:helena, feeling patriotic.




and still in jest.




i have no idea what my point is.



ObSal: i got an email from brian fenton last week. he was interviewing
for house sharers, and chose one particular guy because said guy's
girlfriend had read f&z. this was a bad move.

moral of the story: just because people read salinger it really means
nothing in terms of well-balanced personality, ability to function in
everyday life, control of psychotic impulses, that sort of thing.


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