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
> >
> >
> >