Subject: the undisputed & the contenders
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 13:27:17 EST
Well, TLM, maybe we are reading each other's minds.
I'd just rounded the 300 page bend of War & Peace
when your most recent post arrived in the box.
(Two earlier attempts failed at first base camp -
which was strange, considering how compelling I'd
found Anna K.) But, by golly, once you get your
mountain lungs you're not given any choice about
turning back.
It also reminds one what the words 'masterpiece'
or 'genius' actually mean. Cyril Connolly taught
that there was no point in writing a book unless
you intended it to be a masterpiece. I couldn't
agree more. But - Momma ! - would you just take
a look at the competition?
Exception was taken recently to the dismissive
comment one of the New Yorker people made
about JDS. (I've misplaced the actual reference.)
But when you place the exquisite tortuosities
of half a dozen introspective Manhatters against
the irresistible, overwhelming Volga of a Leo T.
- you can see what Yagoda or Bogota or Whoever
must have had in mind.
As Satchmo is reputed to have commented
when he first heard Bix: 'Nigger, you might
just as well lay down & die.'
That goes for all of us.
Scottie B.
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