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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