Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill

patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:06:32 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill


>Camille wrote:
>> >P.S. to everyone - `Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas' has finally come out
>> >here and it's getting absolutely bloody awful reviews. One reviewer
>> >described it as `the only movie in which an overdose would have been a
>> >positive plot development'
>> >
>Patrick wrote:
>> Johnny Depp couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.  Save yourself
>the
>> eight bucks and re-read the book.
>
>Oh, no, no - I think Depp's a fantastic actor. He's one of the actors I
>admire most - he makes such risky choices, but a lot of them are my
>favourite movies - `Edward Scissorhands' and `Ed Wood' for example. All
>accounts show, however, that he's really screwed up in this picture, which
>is a real shame because I hoped he'd finally get that Oscar nomination he's
>been deserving for some time.
>
>Oh well. Never really liked Bukowski anyway (:
>
>No comment on the Johnny Depp praise.  An Oscar nomination?  Anyway, I am
shocked to hear that a writer such as yourself, who feels that the best are
those who "make up their own rules," does not at least appreciate the work
of Charles Bukowski.  Indeed, it seems to me that a young, highly motivated,
writer like you would be drawn to his work.
"Each new line is a beginning and has nothing to do with any lines which
preceded it.  We all start new each time.  And, of course, it isn't all that
holy either.  The world can live much easier without writing than without
plumbing.  And some places in the world have very little of either.  Of
course, I'd rather live without plumbing but I'm sick."
--from _The Captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the
ship_

Anyway. . . would anyone consider the above passage "Salingeresque?"

Patrick