Re: sufferin' suckatash (?) (take two)


Subject: Re: sufferin' suckatash (?) (take two)
From: nick flynn (nicholas.flynn1@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 21:22:35 GMT


on 24/11/00 2:25 am, Scottie Bowman at rbowman@indigo.ie wrote:
>
   
> '... pretty low of you to expose him ...'
>
> Ah wait now, Nick. We mustn't over react.
> A modest boast that I'd once exchanged views
> with the chap seems hardly an 'exposure'.
> (Unless my very touch is itself a source of scandal.)

     Lighten up friend, it was written with a twinkle in the eye.
>
> There were 'inaccuracies' in my account - partly explained
> by the fact the my brain sadly dosen't improve with age &
> that the original brief exchange took place when that same
> brain was chronically addled with drink.

     Hey Scottie, maybe you should just except it, cogent thinking wasn't
for you.
 
> First of all, my reference to 'Ladybridge' was an honest
> misremembering of his home address in Robertsbridge -
> which you, as an afficionado, must have recognised.

     I didn't, but its a relief to know that your usually (self-confessed)
"cocky & arrogant" approach, was dropped at least for a few moments.
>
> there
> was also something saddening at the sight of the old devil
> as he turned pious with one of the most widely publicised
> of conversions, those gaga encounters with mystical lights,
> that insistence - from one of the better tables at The
> Gay Huzzar - on the vanity of all human endeavour.
>
> As you very well know, not a few called him a life-long
> fraud. I don't agree with them, but there WAS
> sometimes a suspicious whiff in the air.

     I am sure M.M. would be charmed by the charity of your assessment. But
the fact that someone who suspects that J.D. Salinger (remember him) "was
really more interested in the chic than the truth" should also detect a
whiff of fraud about Muggeridge, "cheers one bush-league intellectual's
heart no end".
     All in all, Scottie its been fun chewing this over with you, and as
Jack London once said "difference of opinion is what can and does make
horse- racing", but perhaps we should now rejoin the others and start
discussing - yes, you've guessed it - Salinger.

                                                  Best wishes,

                                                        Nick.

P.S. Joking and bantering apart, Scottie, thanks for taking the trouble to
dig out that letter of yours from Muggeridge, I read it with great interest.
>
>
>
>
>
> -
> * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
> * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
>

-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Sun Dec 17 2000 - 17:06:20 GMT