Re: '... like Webster's dikshon - ay - ree ...'

From: tina carson <tina_carson@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 17:57:15 EDT

Scottie:
While I deeply respect growth and self-criticism, how is it possible to be
EMBARRASSED over your own work? What is it? Your diary from when you were
thirteen and going through homosexual panic? Come on. I was about to say
"if it was good enough to be published...", then realized how many truly
atrocious books I've read. Still, Although I definitely see the youth and
naiveté in my early works, I'm still proud of them all, like children that
aren't perfect, but still... They're still my children.
tina

> I've already made as clear as I can my embarrassment
> over those books. For over thirty years now it has
> very effectively stopped me even opening their covers.
> If someone still wants to fetch the mummified corpses
> down from the attic - well, that's the risk I took when
> I first sent them to a publisher. Some of you have already
> had that mortifying experience, or are hoping one day
> to be struck by the same lightning. The best of luck.
>
> Must rush now. Off tomorrow morning to take a shufti
> at my Arab friends. Have to hunt out me old Hemingway
> trench-coat & the Bob Capa Leica. Hot date waiting
> in the back bar at Rick's.
>
> Straighten you all out when I get back. IF I get back.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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