Re: positively final appearance

James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT)

ehhh...so you're staying?  I hope so :)

Jim

On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:21:35 +0100 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
>
>    There are few more laughable sights than the listserv
>    prima donna who is forever threatening to flounce
>    off stage in the hope of hearing the entreaties being
>    shouted from a suddenly guilt-stricken audience.
>
>    I don't see how I can easily avoid this particular role -
>    especially when the withered cheeks are still flushed
>    with the sort of flattery offered by the likes of Tim,
>    Paul, Mike ...
>
>    I can only throw myself on the mercy of that same
>    audience & ask them to believe that my protests were
>    honest ones.  I really DO think we should discipline
>    ourselves a bit more - or at least that  *I* should -
>    & not go on indulging the kind of codology that
>    I've always found just too easy to churn out.
>
>    Never forget the words of that great perfumed nancy,
>    E.M. Hemingway:
>            'The great thing is to last & get your work done
>            & see & hear & learn & understand; & write when
>            there is something that you know; & not before;
>            & not too damned much after. [….] The thing to do
>            is work & learn to make it ...'
>
>    It would be ridiculous - with those words in mind -
>    to do any more unnecessary flouncing.  I shall, of course,
>    stick around.  But I hope with the sluice gates swinging
>    open a little less often.
>
>
>    Scottie B.
>
>

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