Subject: Re: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 11:00:10 GMT
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:08:05AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> I think it's a little sad that I have to defend a review of a Salinger story
> posted to a Salinger discussion list.
Absolutely. I think your essay was terrific, and I think only that
you have to learn to develop the thicker skin required when you put
your work out in public. Because a lot of people won't read you at
all -- even when you publish about Salinger on a Salinger mailing list
-- and some people will utterly misread you or misinterpret you.
That's not to say there's anything wrong with what you wrote, but it
does suggest that your readership may not be "with you" at the level
where you are writing.
I didn't say anything about your essay, because I didn't think there
was anything to say, except perhaps "bravo," but that silence
shouldn't be misconstrued as condemnation. At the same time, you have
lots of readers here who might not have read you as carefully as you
would have liked, or who simply may have honestly disagreed with you.
I'm sorry if it seems that you were being personally attacked. I like
to think it was something other than that.
--tim
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