Subject: Re: U2 + can girlies understand holden?
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Sat Jun 28 1997 - 11:47:11 GMT
>OK, so it's not that exciting at all, in fact it's been the biggest
>anti-climax of my life so far. No one wants to give me a job and it's
>raining non-stop. Irish summer sucks.
It has been raining here in Amsterdam every day since I arrived. A
thunderstorm just began a few minutes ago. I think it got here by way of
Ireland. It has all the marks of it.
>2) here is an excerpt from an unsolicited email i got from a man called
>'Alfons'.
>
>He says:
>> how can a girl
>> be able to understand holden coulfields feelings anyway?
Well, what's to be said about this, except that it's misguided?
I'm staying around the corner from the Anne Frank House, and thought that
while I'm right here, listening to the same sounds she listened to and
walking the same streets she once walked, I would dip into her
autobiography. (I picked up a copy at the museum shop.) Should I stop
reading it because, the last time I checked, I was a man? Is reading it
again going to produce no reaction in me the way it did the first time?
Should only 15-year-old girls read it, under the assumption that nobody
else can get it?
For all of the above, I think not.
Great literature transcends scanty boundaries. I'm no brute, and I don't
drink, and I don't box and I don't go around attempting to prove how
masculine I am, yet I love Hemingway's stories and many of his novels and
his memoir of Paris.
Alfons will learn otherwise, if he sticks with his subscription here and
listens well, or Well.
--tim o'connor
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