Subject: Re: sound recordings
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 13:58:55 GMT
Tim inquired pleasantly:
>How was the reaction to Charlotte's Web? I read it rather late in
>childhood, but recall being devastated by it. I was sad for weeks
>after.
I may have mentioned that we have only gotten through a ten minute
sample, as these tapes don't get too much air time except on long
car trips (where they are a true blessing, believe me - we made it
to the Berkshires in three hours without realizing it by listening
to The Indian in the Cupboard (also very, very well done) - parents,
take note <smile>).
My two main customers are young ladies ages 10 (going on 18) and
12 ("don't call me that in public!" age) who are thankfully not too
media-jaded and still appreciate just sitting and listening
to nothing more than a single voice reading. They are amused by the
New England accent (New Yawkas ourselves) and I believe they very
much want to continue, so I will give them the tapes, to be used
after homework, of course (while engaged in the interminable task
of cleaning their room and organizing their scrapbooks, etc., with a
little sibling-sitting thrown in). As for crying, I'm not sure they
will, I don't anymore.
While we're being so homey, I might as well tell you about my lawn...
Actually, the little verse that follows *did* come to me during the lastest
round in the eternal suburban skirmish.
And what did *you* do on your summer vacation?
all the best,
Mattis
Here I am
surrounded by the Lion's Teeth I did not sow,
yet which spring up to mock me
with their obscenely yellow,
(dare I say, fluffy?) manes
No Jason, I,
and with no Circe to advise me
I strike these humbling warriors
with (must I tell?)
a screwdriver
No one wins
this war without resort to
wholesale mayhem (so I console myself)
and I retreat to look up recipes
for dandelion wine
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