Saps on Bananafish List
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:30:15 -0700
Scottie,
I am glad to see that you want to buck up Camille. She deserves it. And I
would go so far as to say, Watch out New Zealand with your Katherine
Mansfield, Australia has the up-and-coming Camille Scaysbrook!
But do you have to make the rest of us feel like fill-in-the-blank with that
sentence re "none of the other saps"?
--Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: how to get published
>
> Dear Camille,
>
> One or two others of the crew have been moaning about
> the number of days at sea. But not, thank God, you.
> (Incidentally, what kind of a boat do they think
> this galley is? H.M.Y. Brittania?)
>
> So I shan't offer you any comfort - which is, after all,
> the most undermining thing you can ever do to anyone.
> Perhaps I could remind you, though, what a lucky little
> koala you are. None of the other saps can even imagine
> doing what you & I do every day of our lives. Most of
> them don't even know what you're talking about.
> 'Seven?' they say. 'She's not writing children's stories, is she?'
>
> Remember Giotto? He could draw the perfect circle,
> just like that, without even concentrating. The rest of
> the town used to come round & they'd say: 'Go on Giotto,
> do it again.' And he would oblige. And they'd say:
> 'Gee, Giotto, how do you do it?' And Giotto would say:
> 'It's easy.'
>
> That session in the A&E sounds a little dispiriting.
> Don't let it get you down, baby. All shall be well.
> And never forget Winston: Let us so brace ourselves
> to our duty ...
>
> Scottie
>
>
>