Subject: Re: Let's make peace
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 23:09:26 EST
Dear Jim,
Jim, from the timbre of your post it seems to me that you are either attempting to shame me into or out of something. Your attitude towards me has really mystified me since I joined Bananafish. I wasn't quite sure how to respond to all these accusations that I was some Australian girl who was either lovable or loatheable - because all I know is that I'm me, I love reading Salinger and I'm away from home, lonely, wanted something to keep me company besides my daughter, and stumbled upon Bananafish. I wondered - is this Jim the one who metaphorically flushes your head in the toilet on the first day (CF Patti Smith's `Piss Factory')? It saddened me to think that you felt you had to assert yourself over me. Now that I've finally had a look at the archives I find that the mythical Camille does really exist. For a moment there I wasn't sure she did, I wondered if she was like Stella Stewart, the fictional student we invented at my school who stood in for all and sundry at detentions!
and on permission slips (Don't laugh, now she's CEO of my Dad's company. As far as telemarketers are concerned ;)).
>From what I read, Camille seems OK. Grabbing posts from here and there made it difficult to judge - but in a lot of ways, it's beside the point, because you have insulted both me and her. Seeing you didn't mind posting a mocking private email to me in public, I won't mind posting one to her in private to tell her what's going on. It's a shame that I don't want to read the valuable insights you have to offer because you so obviously don't like me or want to get rid of me or whatever.
The main point of all this (a digression, I apologise, and a completely un-necessary one) is that I am here to talk Salinger, not to talk me or my life or my politics or career. Jim, I hope that's mainly why you're here too because that's all I'm willing to discuss with you.
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:11:48 SeymourGlass21 wrote: >In a message dated 3/13/2000 9:02:51 PM Central Standard Time, >AntiUtopia@aol.com writes: > ><< I wanted to send this little personal message directly to you just so that > you'd know where I was coming from, and to try to forgive this terribly > love-struck man who doesn't quite know what to do with himself...anyway, I > won't be reading my mail again at least till the morning, so don't feel you > have to respond right away. >> > >Hmm... >Jim, I don't want to burst your quickly swelling irrational heart or >anything, but your proclamation of love for our fallen Australian >bananafisher has been sent to a venerable myriad of Salinger fans across the >world. I hope this doesn't constitue a mass amount of emberrasment on your >part. > ><< Camille was >such a pedantic, boring, self-righteous little brat it's nice to have a >thoughtful, mature woman posting to the list. >> > >I must agree with you on this statement, though. What little memory I have >of our friend from "down under" is not pleasant. > >...andrew >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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