---jordie chambers <jordiekc@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > Let me guess, Scottie - you aren't Hannibal after all. > You are in fact J.D. Salinger writing under the guise of a > bitter, weltschmerz-eating assistant to the starship > enterprise. My apologies, I'm sure you have a life, but I > didn't know I was speaking with Jerome himself! Or, > should I say, Mr. Salinger - your fiction has earned you > the respect of your internet peers. By the way, what do > them damn ducks do in the wintertime? > I just checked a Salinger fan's webpage so it turns out he was born in 1919, which makes him eighty maybe less one year. I've taken this off my 'conspiracy alert' web page and reverted to yellow alarm for Star Trek actors. Maybe you could add a trifle of delicate empathy yourself, considering that he may be locked in a bunker, nine years ahead of you, typing away as J.K. Chambers. Moo hoo ha ha! And I bet you all thought it was the Depressed guy at collegemail! Think again! Moo hoo ha ha ha (cough) ha (weeze) ha! > > > > ---Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote: > > > > > > Well, really. I'm bewildered. Here I am, a plain > minded, > > elderly man making an old fashioned plea for decorum > - > > only to find myself accused of pretentious writing, > > insulted as 'Lord Scot', diagnosed as psychotic, > likened > > on the one hand to a figure from science fiction & on > > the other to a cannibal, told (in my seventy-first > year) > > to 'get a life', & so on. > > > > And all of this on a mailing list devoted to a man > whose > > exquisite delicacy of feeling & empathy with the > unfashionable > > is legendary. > > > > Ah, JD, where are you now that I need you? > > > > Scottie B. > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com