Subject: Re: Nick: an introduction.
From: nick flynn (nicholas.flynn1@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 04:00:25 GMT
on 22/11/00 11:30 pm, Scottie Bowman at rbowman@indigo.ie wrote:
Thanks for the effusive welcolme, Scottie,
As for your being intrigued that I should be interested in Malcolm
Muggeridge while at the same time choosing to ignoring the output of
Salingers income- supplimenting, camp-followers, its really quite simple:
Muggeridge was primarily interested in truth, and made his living
eloquently expressing his opinions. He was not particularly interested in
money,(Wolf Mankowitz described him as the most generous man he had ever
met, and estimated that M.M. must have given away the vast majority of what
he had earned) and his views were never affected by financial
considerations.
Salingers camp followers on the other hand ( one of whom has been
involved in a lengthy court case with him, and another who put his private
letters up for sale) could clearly be seen as both vengeful and avaricious
- hence my analogy with Mathilde Verlain and Judus. Speaking of Judus, I am
reminded of Bob Dylan's repy to an agrieved fan who shouted that epithet at
him - it sums up my peronal response as to the veracity of those who want to
become fat cats (as oposed to fat ladies) at Salingers expense, it was: "I
don't believe you".
You remark that "Ladybridge" (persumably a kittenish euphemism on your
part for Muggeridge) once wrote to you and agreed with you. Well we will
have to take your word on that, and if Muggeridge must go down in History as
the man who agreed with you, well then, so be it. But I still think it was
pretty low of you to expose him.
Best wishes to you and all,
Nick.
>
> A really, really, warm, huggy, embracing welcome to Nick
> & an immediate disclaimer that this should be interpreted
> as anything other. (You know how it is when you've acquired
> a certain reputation.)
>
> But I'm intrigued, Nick, that you should, on the one hand,
> have such firm views about tabloid-type expose`s &,
> on the other, collect the works of Malcolm M. - who must
> surely be the Grandest Old Man of iconoclasm of all time.
>
> I have, incidentally, somewhere in my attic a letter from
> Ladybridge warmly endorsing the views expressed in one
> of my own to him - written in my drinking days when
> my thoughts were (even) more misanthropic than they are
> now. I'm sure it would have made a splendid addition
> to your collection.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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