Subject: Re: a terrific writer dies
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 11:34:20 EST
Roll the opening theme for "Brideshead Revisited"....
PAUL: (in best Alistair Cook accent) Tony Pole was never actually a friend
of mine. But one day when an acquaintance recommended that I buy a
bottle of gin and sit down to begin my literary indoctrination to
mid-century Oxbridge snobbism....
I don't know Scottie. I said I'd give the guy another try. But I doubt
I'll end up bowing down before those 'aristocrats of Nature'--the same folks
that brought us Lord Lucan, Princess Margaret, the Duke of Argyle (although,
come to think of it, the Duke of Edinburgh is pathetic enough an object of
respect), or, for that matter (speaking of gin) the Queen Mom--the English.
My memory of Mr. Pole is that his writing was just a tad too precious for my
rough colonial tastes. (Give me the Aldous Huxley of ANTIC HAY instead--if
only because the grandson of Darwin's defender proved himself more capable
than most bull-headed Englishmen of EVOLVING through quite a few literary
incarnations after Bloomsbury, including, I hasten to add, both the BRAVE
NEW WORLD and (incredibly!) THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION. (I may have this title
wrong. I'm a long way from my early-70s library--although this evening's
entertainment DOES include a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert....
Perhaps I'll just ask one of the 40-somethings who will also inevitably be
in attendance if they can remember the title.... Pass the joint....)
I'd think, Scottie, that in your particular line of work, it would be part
and parcel of the qualifying analysis that you confront the inner Celt who
obviously lurks within you. Sound the pibroch!
Cheers,
Paul
OSR--OK, now that we know the cover of the Bantam CATCHER changed from red
to purple over the years (although Cecilia and others can insist they own
maroon editions).... Do we know whether the publishers ever changed the type
setting--thereby either including or excluding some of the minor copy-edit
problems that have been mentioned here from time to time--in the umpteen
million printings since 1951? Which brings up another interesting question
for the bananafishbowl: Should we start planning our July 2001 50th
Birthday Party now?
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