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By John Halladay Submitted by Misti Date: 2002 Sep 19 Comment on this Work [[2002.09.19.19.28.23027]] |
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July 31 Dear Misti: Hi. Well, you certainly know how to attract a person's attention. I, too, hope I'm not a pervert. If you mean by "pervert," a homosexual, I'm not. I'm about as heterosexual as you get. :) (Do you know about emoticons, by the way? Those little things computer folks make with punctuation marks, such as the above?) I am, however, unnaturally attracted to words. So if that's what you mean, why, I'm guilty. Honi soit qui mal y pense. :) Definition, please. And, speaking of words, do you mind a few questions? You'd admit, I'm sure, that you have a very unusual name. Care to say anything about it? I mean, do you reflect it as a person? That is, are you very soft and gentle? If you have any siblings, do they have similar names? I don't mean to be excessively personal at this early stage, but I just couldn't help asking. And "Bubbles" to you, too. (Actually, offered "bubbles," I suppose I ought to respond with something Zen-like. Like "Sunrises.") Your Top 10 list was quite eclectic. One doesn't often run across someone who cites both Green Eggs and Ham and the entire King James Bible. By the way, do you have a favorite part of the King James? I'm kind of an Ecclesiastes man myself. And what do you think of the film version of Slaughterhouse-Five? It's one of my favorites. And, I guess, a film classic since it surfaces every so often during university film festivals (along with 2001.) Do you read other stories by Salinger, for example his Nine Stories? And speaking of Stephen King, did you know his The Stand (made, of course, into that TV miniseries) includes Terre Haute (where I live) in a brief mention or two? A brief mention of what I'm doing now. I was a journalist; now, I take orders for videos over the phone at Columbia House ("Entertaining America -- one Person at a Time.") And right now, I guess, it's time to fix breakfast. (My dog, a Golden Retriever, got me up early this morning to be walked.) One Parthian question: If you do someday design and own your Spanish dream home by the sea, complete with Wurlitzer, what would you play on the jukebox? Sunrises, John |