Re: positively final appearance
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
ehhh...so you're staying? I hope so :)
Jim
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:21:35 +0100 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
writes:
>
> There are few more laughable sights than the listserv
> prima donna who is forever threatening to flounce
> off stage in the hope of hearing the entreaties being
> shouted from a suddenly guilt-stricken audience.
>
> I don't see how I can easily avoid this particular role -
> especially when the withered cheeks are still flushed
> with the sort of flattery offered by the likes of Tim,
> Paul, Mike ...
>
> I can only throw myself on the mercy of that same
> audience & ask them to believe that my protests were
> honest ones. I really DO think we should discipline
> ourselves a bit more - or at least that *I* should -
> & not go on indulging the kind of codology that
> I've always found just too easy to churn out.
>
> Never forget the words of that great perfumed nancy,
> E.M. Hemingway:
> 'The great thing is to last & get your work done
> & see & hear & learn & understand; & write when
> there is something that you know; & not before;
> & not too damned much after. [….] The thing to do
> is work & learn to make it ...'
>
> It would be ridiculous - with those words in mind -
> to do any more unnecessary flouncing. I shall, of course,
> stick around. But I hope with the sluice gates swinging
> open a little less often.
>
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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