Subject: Re: Bio # 11
From: Renee Zuckerbrot (renee@dachshund.com)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 09:32:13 GMT
I believe that Herman Melville toiled in New York's notorious Customs House....
renee
>Hey Rocky, watch me pull an autobiography out of my hat...
>
>Again?
>
>Nothin' up my sleeve....
>
> It is a little remarkable that -- though disinclined to talk
>overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my
>personal friends -- an autobiographical impulse should twice in my
>life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The
>first time was three or four years since, when I favored the reader
>-- inexcusably and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent
>reader or the intrusive author could imagine -- with a description
>of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now --
>because, beyond my deserts, I was happy enough to find a listener or
>two on the former occasion -- I again seize the public by the button
>and talk of my three years' experience in a Custom House.
>
>Whoops, obviously someone else's narrative. The hat bears the wrong initial.
>
>Now here's something we hope you'll *really* like...
>
>--John
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