Re: Authors, critics, readers...

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:57:06 -0800 (PST)

Hi, folks.

I'm having a problem here.  

Remember the last time that you told a really clever, funny joke and 
someone didn't get it?  That happened today. There was this lady telling 
a joke to about ten other people & one of them didn't get it. 
The rest of the crew spent the next ninety seconds explaining a ten 
second joke.
He finally got it, but it wasn't funny anymore.  The explaination killed 
the humour.

Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author & I just found a listserve like this 
about Vonnegut.  I don't think I'll join it, though.  I joined this 
listserve as way of accumulating information because I'm in Will's 
class.

I've found some beauty that has brought me to tears this semester while 
reading Sallinger, and it is very personal.  Sometimes I have to skip 
through messages here because there are no words to express what this 
story, or that character, or that memory of this character has meant to 
me, and, in seeing others try, sometimes the personal, emotionally 
involving part is diminished.  The joke isn't funny anymore.  Y'know?
I mean, I'm not trying to attack this place, in fact I enjoy this very 
much, but, sometimes.....
Sorry, I just read Good Day for Bananafish, and, well.......

Namaste,

Thor

P.S. Please check out my web page & let me know what you think.
http://www.uscolo.edu/TAC/


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