RE: Soft Boiled

just a writer writing a story that would sell. just like fitzgerald did at times. to make a living being a writer, you have to write things that will sell. once he didn't have to sell, his writing became less magaziney. i was just saying, if he had a trillion dollars, he would have been writing "seymour: an introduction" a lot sooner, and, we would have never seen any of it. i don't see writing for money as jaded...just, this story seems more like a product than a story.

>>> daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil 06/04/03 11:28AM >>>
Mercenary? Or just a writer learning his chops? Maybe, Jerome actually was
motivated by different things, or he used the pop culture view to anchor
something he wanted to say, sure he was not sculpting a Holden but it is not
bad. I'd even go as far as saying that it is better than most in today's
magazines that pass novelty for genius. Sentimental? Sentimental is human
and a worthy topic in it's place. I found Esme's rain drops dripping
sentimentality, is her post merely reflection of this time and this place?
There are living breathing Burkes today and there are Philly's and there are
even Juanitas, the whole world isn't jaded. Some people still have the
sight to see awe in the mundane. Give me Burkes, give me Phillys, give me
Juanitas over Woodys any day of the week and twice on Saturday. Esme, I
found your uncle and Dad to be a sentimental gem (no sarcasm).
Daniel

Soft Boiled, as well as most of his early war stories, to me, are the
equivalent of Bruce Springsteen or Alan Jackson singing songs about Sept.
11. Not what the writer would write about if he had a trillion dollars.

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