Re: Peggy: An Introduction

Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 17:56:50 -0500

> just got a poem of mine published
> in _Timber Creek Review_...a double
> sonnet (inspired of course by Seymour's
> path blazing concept of a double
> haiku...)
> called "Online Rye Catching Nothing"
> that poem was first heard on
> bananafish...we swim with love
> on this list, and lately I find
> that love getting more and more
> electric with text twisting
> salinger closer all thd time, will

Cheers and blessings on the publication, Will!  It's funny how so many of
us find ourselves some measure of love or sanctuary on this list and with
its subscribers.  (I'm in the middle of a book by another NYU graduate,
Stacy Horn, called "Cyberville," which is about her experience creating an
online "place" and nurturing it along.)  Ours may have less public
conveniences than even a scrawny little town, and, in some periods, a
sleepier feeling, but I can say from my own experience that it's been more
enriching than I could ever have imagined when I sent my first message
along, back in March.  (Only March!)

> ps, I graduated from nyu too.  Mr. Salinger however, chose not to stay
> there for very long...

During a long night of insomnia, I thought about this, and wondered if this
list should quite properly be moved to Ursinus College or Valley Forge.  8-)

--tim o'connor