Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:25:17 EDT

From: Julia Cochran COCPROFS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU

Subject: Re: thank you . . . thank you



Lynne Murphy writes:



people (projecting their own fears of being alone onto me, i presume) insist

on talking to me--and making small (high in quantity, low in quality) talk.

here i am with nabokov in my hand and i have to grunt my agreement with this

stranger's assessments of the weather, the big game on saturday, and the

political situation.



No amount of commentary on my part would be likely to alter your interpretation

of their behavior. Still, I cannot resist observing what a classic passage your

comments would make in yet another modernization of Dickens's "A Christmas

Carol." In fact, you have inspired me to give it a try.



:) ----- yet another bourgeois banality