Don't ever tell anybody anything.

Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Sat, 02 May 1998 22:49:48 -0700 (PDT)

Well, folks, it saddens me a bit--particularly since discussion has just 
now started to perk up a bit, after the long recession we've been 
suffering--but now it's time to make my exit.  E-mail has begun to 
dominate *far* too much of my time, and 98% of my E-mail is 
bananafish...and now I've got finals, and after the semester ends, I'd 
like to spend a nice summer with my lovely girlfriend and as little of 
the Internet as possible.  

I'm not sure who-all was here when I arrived around last November, aside 
from Malcolm and Will and Jim and Bethany and Peggy and (of course) 
Tim--the resident Yogi--but thank you all, named and un-named, and thank 
you particularly to Camille and Scottie for the shaking-up toward the 
end there.  Scottie, I gotta admit, I couldn't stand you at first, but 
your brand of brilliance just takes a little fine tuning of the ear to 
appreciate.  It's hard, on E-mail, to distinguish between abuse and a 
good-natured walloping; in fact, it's hard to distinguish in e-mail 
between any nuances, which is one of the reasons I'm not having too hard 
a time cutting the habit.  :)

I've learned a great deal from this list, intellectually and ethically 
and humanly (?)--so much that I won't bother attempting to go into it. 
But I think you know what I mean.  

I'll make periodical checks to the archived digests to see what I've 
missed, and perhaps quietly subscribe once in awhile for nostalgia's 
sake, and maybe engage in a good spar or two.  I'm sure you're not 
holding your respective breaths.  If there's anything really good, 
someone forward it to me.  suburbantourist@hotmail.com

Thanks again.  Feel free to keep in touch if you feel like being 
slightly annoyed.  Malcolm, I'll be in touch with you anyway.  Thank you 
to everyone else.  It feels great to have taken part in the continuing 
history of Salinger, even peripherally.

Good-night, folks.  Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite.

Bed-bugs, for chrissake!

Brendan


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