Subject: Re: If you can't beat them, join them #2
From: Suzanne Morine (suzannem@dimensional.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 13:03:40 GMT
I wrote:
>[autobiographical work quote] "Immediately after giving up on the idea of
>becoming a cowboy or a fireman, I decided to become a big-time syndicated
>cartoonist. I spent years developing the necessary skills, but then found
>myself interested in things that weren't necessarily compatible with this
>goal. I decided to follow my new interests and shlep comics along with me.
>It's as if I had become a cowboy and later decided to become an opera
>star. I'd sing arias while swinging a lariat."
>
>Obligatory Salinger Reference:
>Regarding Holden's madman days involved his mothering people but not
>getting much mothering himself, this autobio is of a guy whose mother
>killed herself (when he was in college).
Oops, I gotta watch when I slip in a parenthetical remark at the last
minute. It wasn't when he was in college.
Here is a quote from another of his autobiographical works:
"When I was a young mouse in Rego Park, New York, my Poppa used to tell me
bedtime stories about life in the old country during the war.."
Suzanne
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