Re: Saps on Bananafish List

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:14:47 +1000

Actually I'm kind of bewildered about the whole thing. I mean, it's very
very flattering to be called A Writer by Scottie, who doesn't confer
official titles as readily as even the Queen of England, but the *only*
writer on bananafish? Perish the thought! I have read nobler and more
enlightening words here than I ever did in three years of university. I
mean it. But I also know only too well that there's nothing one writer
fears and hates more than another writer. So maybe we're all feeling a
little threatened? Bananafish is perhaps the one environment where I
*don't* feel threatened by other writers. We're all here to enlight and be
enlightened!

Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com

> 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
> >
> >
> >