Subject: Re: jerald digby?
From: Mark Kuhar (mkuhar@mail.ohio.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 1997 - 23:08:14 GMT
I'll also second Tom Robbins for you. His gift of narrative is off kilter
and delightfully bizarre. I especially like the sex scenes in Woodpecker.
They just don't write them like that anywhere these days.
>since bananafish is taking a distinctly french tone of late (tim goes to
>paris, myron's got st-exupery as a sig file) i thought i'd take the
>opportunity to showcase my entire knowledge of the french language after
>five years of study.
>
>je fume comme un pompier. je suis une fumeur inverite. tu as une feu?
>(i came out with this in an oral exam once, minus the last sentence,
>only to discover the examiner was a fanatical anti-smoker - c'est
>degoutant!, she exlaimed. oh, well. c'est la vie.)
>
>irrelevance aside, i'd just like to ask which one was the classic pic of
>salinger looking very old and very deranged, and as though he's making a
>grab for the camera? know the one i mean? i know that it's not very
>respectful of wishes for privacy, but as a photograph, i think it's
>bloody brilliant.
>
>As for sue townsend, sonny, I loved the adrian mole books, though, in
>retrospect, they're a leetle too close to home: 'although i'm an
>intellectual, i'm not very clever, and so have to study harder than
>everyone else.' i like the o'learys too. every year on paddy's day they
>get disgustingly drunk and then arrested. even though I've read all the
>books a thousand times they still make me laugh.
>
>i still can't believe nobody seconded my nomination of tom robbins as
>one of the best. he's stunning! Still Life With Woodpecker? Half Asleep
>in Frog Pajamas? ANYONE????
>
>:helena
>
>--
>-It's me jaysis name, said Outspan
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