Re: another dram
Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:53:13 -0400
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:01:32AM +0100, Scottie Bowman wrote:
> '... his last bottle of Glenlivet ...'
>
> Sorry. I should, of course, have written:
> '... his last bottle of meths ...'
Egads, that is the first time I have heard "meths" since that
fantabulous movie, "Withnail and I," wherein one of the title
characters, after bemoaning the lack of booze in the house,
drinks a can of lighter fluid and declares it "far superior to
meths." (I'm paraphrasing; I can't find my &^%*^ copy of the
screenplay to make it and the context more precise.)
Of course, this message is completely irrelevant to JDS. There's
not a single reference to him or his work in it, but it's easily
on my list of absolutely favorite movies. Or screenplays; the
last edition had a new introduction by the author, which was one
of the more bittersweet recollections I can recall ... in fact,
not unlike Buddy talking about one or two details of Seymour,
as he tries to create a portrait of his brother.
--tim (coming to this conversation, and nearly everything else
on the list this week, quite late)