(Source: Harry Ransom Center)
10-10-95
Dear Don,
Since it’s clear from your letters that you’re a person nice, and since it’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice, I again want to implore you not to feel any obligation to read the BM any…
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marginalgloss said:
This made me laugh a lot. I suspect he was being a bit cheeky towards Delillo (a writer not much known for ‘fun’) as well as aiming to flatter here. Also I was more surprised to see him use the phrase ‘a good wank’ than I was ‘a person nice’.
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bechase said:
this is beautiful but it makes me feel very sad too.
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avoidwork123 said:
Do they have the response there somewhere? I poked around a bit in the archive but couldn’t find the letter.
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