Re: bedtime with Daddy
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:22:49 -0500 (EST)
Two things"
> Although I personally emerged from the uterus
> asking for publishing news of the latest Joyce,
> by 1932 I can remember indulging both my father
> & grandfather when, at the cot side, they read me
> the works of de Maupassant & de Sade. And I
> naturally carried on this paternal function with
> my own children.
1. Ehm, your parents read you de Sade as a child? That explains much :)
>
> But what about Bananafish? Out in the old
> log cabin, or by the camp fire's glow, was Pop
> in evidence with his book on his lap?
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
2. I am happy to say my parents read to me a lot when I was very young. The
obvious positive connection between "parental attention and affection" and
"reading" probably went a long way in shaping who I am today.
Why, Oh Why, couldn't Daddy have sat me in his lap as a child and read to me
stock market reports or lines of computer programming? I'd have soooo much
more money now... :)
Jim