Re: *Scriptor*
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 03:41:42 +0500
>I don't remember what her name was. I think it was late--or maybe
>summer of--'96. Will?
Oh, Matt, I think you refer to one who called herself "Cari". I remember
because it was around the time, or soon after I had joined the list and for
a while wondered who that could be. The name's stayed in my mind as I was
reading Carrie Fisher then.
And, maybe it's been mentioned here before, but while reading Jay
McInerney's Brightness Falls, came across this which, precedence demands, I
share with the list:
" Saturday morning, after lunch, she retreated to the library, and this
nice old guy named Jerome had started to talk to her about the book she was
reading -- D.T. Suzuki on Zen -- and then invited her to lunch, and for
some reason she had trusted him. They drove out to the country to his
house, which had a high chain-link fence around it. They lunched on grains
and beans and vegetables, and all he talked about was vitamins and herbs
and macrobiotics. He said he'd been working on a book about diet and
spiritual health for years. After lunch he showed her the cinder-block
bunker where he did his writing, and only then did she realise it was
Salinger. He dropped her back at the library and never once mentioned
fiction. Jeff and Russell had often tried to wring more out of her, but
that was it. A man obsessed with vitamins."
I note that the book is published 1993, but this much I think was in
"public domain" already thanks to Betty Eppes and others?
Sonny.