[lit-ideas] Re: Flux
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 02:12:49 -0000
That's because they give a prize for the best ad.. (They did, anyway; I
haven't read the LRB lately.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff (UK)
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From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:52 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Flux
> > I'm back from my mother's funeral. On the way out of the U.K. I had an
> idea
> > for a letter to "The Times." Such letters are a literary form unto
> > themselves. Even if by some miracle my letter were published, I'd never
> > know, so instead of sending mine there, I'm sending it here.
>
> Send your letter to the London Review of Books. They'd publish it.
>
> The Brits are a unique literary form in themselve. Just glance at the
> personal ads in the London Review of Books.
> Here's a sample:
> It came to him in a cocaine rush as he took the Langley exit that if
Aldrich
> had told Filipov about Hancock only Tulfgengian could have known that the
> photograph which Wagner had shown to Maximov on the jolting S-Bahn was not
> the photograph of Kessler that Bradford had found in the dark, sinister
> house in the Schillerstrasse the day that Straub told Percival that the
man
> on the bridge had not been Aksakov but Pavtovsky, which meant that it was
> not Kleist but Krueger that Cherensky had met in the bleak, wintry
> Gruenewald and that, therefore, only Frau Epp could have known that Muller
> had followed Droysen to the steamy aromatic cafZ in the Beethovenstrasse
> where he told Buerger that Todorov had known since the Liebermann affair
> that McIntyre had not met Stoltz at the Goerlitzer Bahnhof but instead had
> met Sommer in the cavernous Anhalter Bahnnof. Itch been eyn Berleener (gay
> MA ex-pat M, forties) at box no. 06/13.
>
>
> More at http://www.lrb.co.uk/classified/index.php#PERSONALS
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
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