Re: Nearly Salinger-related
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:06:00 +1000
Matt wrote:
> This week's _New Yorker_ (Oct. 18/25 double issue) features, on page
> 16, an eloquent letter submitted by an 11-year-old. Not quite as
> eloquent or as young as Hapless Seymour, but interesting, in the
> context of precocious children.
Did you notice also that they have just found a seven year old boy (yes,
the magic number) named Karma who is a New Zealand Buddhist who, through a
series of signs has been chosen as second-in-charge to the Dalai Lama?
While being delighted that it happened here in the antipodes I also
thought: keep that kid away from empty swimming pools (:
P.S. I wrote my first significant major work at age 9 and my second, a full
length novel, at twelve. While I sure don't claim to be any kind of genius
(a genius would get more work done (: ) I know that if you come home from
school every day and write, buy a good thesaurus and spend the eleven years
leading up to it reading voraciously and - yeah, you could write a 20,000
word letter to your parents at age 7!
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com