Re: delicacy

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Scottie Bowman wrote:
> 
>         I've just read Will Hochman's thoughts on Joyce Maynard's
>         thing with Salinger.
> 
     To accomplish what he did, Salinger (sorry, MR Salinger...
>         MR Salinger... Mr Salinger...  Strewth...) had to have the toughness
>         of old campaign boots & the barefaced cheek of a sideshow hustler.
>         That's what it *always* takes to write a good book in the first
>         place & then, even more so, to shove it & the other bits & pieces
>         through the corridors of publishing into the uplands of money &
>         celebrity.

The way our presidents need to fuck every woman in sight in order to
effectively run the country?  

I don't know if I agree with the asshole-equals-artist theory.

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