Re: take that, ian hamilton

Good quotation, Kim. Thanks for posting it.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

>i don't recall ever running into this complete a quote
>until today on abebooks.com:
>
>"It has always been a most terrible and almost
>unassimilable wonder to me that it is evidently quite
>lawful, the world over, for a newspaper or a
>publishing house to "commission" somebody, in the not
>particularly fair name of good journalism or basic
>profitable academic research, to break into the
>privacy not only of a person not reasonably suspected
>of criminal activity but into the lives as well,
>however glancingly, of that person's relatives and
>friends. Speaking (as you may have gathered) from
>rather unspeakably bitter experience, I suppose I
>can't put you or Random House off, if the lot of you
>are determined to have your way, bu I do feel I must
>tell you, for what very little it may be worth, that I
>think I've borne all the exploitation and loss of
>privacy I can possibly bear in a single lifetime."
>
>--J.D. Salinger,
>
>in a letter to Ian Hamilton
>
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