Subject: Re: a poem seymour g. would have written at age 2
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 04:05:12 GMT
Relax, chaps, just passing through.
But Nathalie's submission was too good
to ignore. That's what I call a poem.
By coincidence, they've been discussing marginalia
recently over on Heming-L. One investigator
reports that the books in Hemingway's Cuban
house were covered in references & scribbles.
Another denies this rather vehemently. Most
credibly, it seems the old man made notes on
a handful of his books but that the great majority
were left 'pristine.'
I was, of course, delighted to read this consensus.
I really can't stand the exhibitionistism of soi-disant
scholars drawing attention to their own views &
preenings - at the expense of the next reader's pleasure.
I always knew that a man like Hem, so aware of
the look - as well as the sound - of a piece of writing,
would have more taste than to scrawl his own faeces
over someone else's white spaces.
Ironic then, that I should name my own little house
- Pangur Cottage - after one of the most famous
pieces of marginalia: the address to his pet cat by one
of those medieval Book of Kells chaps mentioned
in the poem.
Scottie B.
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