"His Unbrilliant Career" or "A Context for Posts"
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Wed, 06 Oct 1999 09:42:48 -0700
At the late age of 19, he graduated from penis to pen.
By 24, his assets included two rejection slips and a Master's thesis of 22
anorexic poems.
Just shy of his 30th birthday, he quartered and tossed all of his
manuscripts.
The next 17 years were spent sans literature--one might call them an
extended lost weekend of manic-depression.
At 47, he began again.
He exhibits an inordinate--*some* might say, unhealthy--interest in the
writings and lives of J.D. Salinger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Beckett and
Franz Kafka.
On December 22, 2000, his apprenticeship should end. ("Apprenticeship"
being defined as writing for seven years, 350 days a year, with two weeks
off for good behavior.) It will be his 50th birthday.
He better get cracking.