Re: Salinger's bad influence was a JOKE!!
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 08 May 1999 07:10:39 -0700
At 10:17 AM -0700 on 5/7/99, you wrote:
> I'm pretty new to this email thing but I guess
> I'll have to remember next time to put
> many, many smiley faces all over my post so
> people don't misunderstand my strange sense of
> humor. Or maybe I should put at the top in
> capital letters; "THIS IS A JOKE! NOT MEANT TO
> BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!"
That's one approach, but (honestly) I enjoy a bit of wry commentary now and
then and believe it need not be filled with billboards that tell us how to
interpret what we're reading.
> Jim and Tim, it seems you are the only ones who
> understood that is was a joke. Maybe I'm not
> the only one with a strange sense of humor,
> I feel better knowing that :)
Well, two things: one is that some of us are pretty strange. The other is
that there are hundreds of readers who, for their own reasons, don't
respond -- and we have no idea of how many of them caught your satirical
tone.
Worst of all, some of our best readers are off the air; some of the
additional commentary you would have received, I'm sure, would have been
from them.
--tim