look away
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:12:36 +0100
'... His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be
identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has
asked me to describe him as `the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish
Mohican scout that died in your arms at the roulette
table at Monte Carlo ...'
For once, I'm not sniping at Camille. When she quotes
admiringly this passage from Salinger I imagine she will
be speaking for the majority of list members.
Still. Quite seriously - & trying to stick to my resolution
to avoid frivolity - I have to ask: am I quite alone in finding
this kind of thing embarassing? To discover the chap who
wrote Esme & Holden churning out this contrived, twinkly-eyed,
archly-smiling rubbish is for me the equivalent of watching
a former Olympic runner begging a handout for booze
on skid row.
No one else? Really no one?
Scottie B.