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[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

...Texas coastlines off Aransas Pass and Mustang Island...

A bleedin' heart from south Texas?!? Whoda thunk? No wonder you try so much to impress this board. Who you tryin' to impress? Throw off your chains, girl!

We'll accept you for who you are if ya stop tryin' to impress. An 'dis is from a transplanted Louisiana boy...

NCTBA

[With Malice Toward None]

[johnslat]

Dear WMTN,

Thanks for the suggestion, but what I'm writing now could, I suppose, be called a "moral dilemma" novel - how doing the wrong thing for the right reason can take one down the slippery slope.
The working title is "Natural Causes."

And while I appreciate your kind offer to "demolish" my "ego." I can assure you that life has already done a pretty thorough job of that.

The Pulitzer ceremony? Didn't you mean to write "The Nobel Prize ceremony?"

(As you can see - all I have left is a teeny, mini-ego.)

Regards,
John

[With Malice Toward None]

[lazycomputerkids]

John

You're so sweet. I had not intended for my post to elicit solutions. You're entirely correct about self-reliance. DO NOT come to the middle-east to teach English if your self-knowledge includes a need for guidance and social interaction. And I shouldn't make the middle-east a criterion.

The post was meant to describe the 'abuse' of compound life in a smaller town. Though my experience is milder to the isolation to which the women are subjected. The guys are allowed far more latitude to walk about.

The 'abuse' is one had better be prepared for some solitude. The abuse is a dependency on a program's drivers or a bus and the inevitable lack of coordination teachers have when venturing about. ESL teachers are a motley crew.

I enjoy writing even in a forum as ephemeral as a bulletin board. A board is simultaneously chatty and a record for an as of yet to be determined period of time. It's a kind of graffiti.

My hat's off to your effort of a novel. I'm greatly a non-fiction sort, but as friends have insisted this or that work, I'm often familiar with a title. During a time of solitude in a past chapter of my life, I became enthralled with Flannery O'Connor, read everything available to the public and nearly made a pilgrimage to her home and the university attending her private papers and such. Someone, some day, will acquire the rights to her most celebrated short story and film it and fill me with an indescribable envy.

O'Connor wrote that when called upon to write prose, it dulled her narrative ability. She also said painting was an excellent hobby for writers-- it forces them to take long looks at the mundane. But I can quote her endlessly. I think most literate people have read a few how-to-write books and her musings on the subject are contained in Mystery and Manners. I've yet to find its equal.

[lazycomputerkids]

[tacomaboywa]

[tacomaboywa]

[With Malice Toward None]

Clear?
Everyone and anyone who signs/accepts offers that are not legally valid in SA terms is an idiot of the first order and he/she will suffer and won't be able to get out, too.

[lazycomputerkids]

[tacomaboywa]

[trapezius]

[johnslat]

Dear LCK (I'm SO lazy),

I don't know if it's overlooking the harbor, but here's a photo of it:

http://tinyurl.com/ykdqyzd

Please don't be hard on NCTBA - he's really one of the good guys (and Lord knows we're in short supply.)

I LOVE Flannery O'Connor, and, in fact, I had the great good fortune to teach some of her stories from "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

If I might make a suggestion - another great Southern writer: Walker Percy.

Regards,
John

[tacomaboywa]

[lazycomputerkids]