Re: how it's done

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May I suggest that it was "Kakfa in the bath" that has pried out all of this
information from the normally reticent Scottie?

(A :) to Scottie, and a (: to Camille.)

--Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:21 AM
Subject: how it's done


>
>    I wouldn't do this for anyone but you, Camille.
>
>    Claire Tomalin is the one who, outraged when
>    the first book (which she had discovered) was
>    about to be rejected by the chairman of Hutchinson
>    on the grounds of 'amorality', made her protest &
>    directed me into the arms of Mark Hamilton -
>    then the hottest agent in London.  He placed it
>    within the week & the rest, as they *should* say,
>    will one day be history.
>
>    Ms Tomalin, naturally, has her very own shrine
>    in my heart.  (Brimstone candles.) She is, nowadays,
>    a fashionable biographer & it's no surprise her name
>    is recognised - even in Australia.
>
>    Nor am I surprised the name Elizabeth Bowen
>    appears to be less known, though, she is, of course,
>    a much more considerable figure.  Look her up
>    in any standard reference book of modern English
>    writers.  She would, I think, be placed with
>    the half dozen top dogs of the English literary
>    scene in the mid 20th C.  Novels, short stories,
>    radio plays - even some crit (which I never read.)
>
>    When the second book came out she sent for me,
>    told me she had just given the book as a birthday
>    present to her 'dearest' (I was too nervous to ask
>    who that might have been) & then beseeched me
>    - not actually on her knees, but over two very large
>    G & Ts - to give up medicine & go full time writing.
>    In turning her down I ensured the final death of my
>    soul (which was already in hock, anyway) but the
>    survival of my family.
>
>    Now.  As to the crits themselves.  Back numbers
>    (1965 - 69) of: The Times, Observer, Guardian,
>    Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, Irish Times,
>    Western Mail .....
>
>    But no.  Modesty forbids ...
>
>    Scottie B.
>
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