Dear Don,
I did not see the mail below
either on N-L or Zembla. Just in case, I am resending it. Sorry, if you are
going to run it. I know it is not 24 hours yet since I posted. I am leaving
for Kyoto to attend the fall meeting of the NSJ.
Have a nice weekend!
Best,
Akiko
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: TT-25 Transatlantic magazine
Dear Peter Washburn and All,
I am grateful to Peter Washburn
for correcting my error. Yes, the gentleman talks about an
article he read in a recently issued Transatlantic and we do not know the
detail of the magazine HP left eight years ago. I thought there were two
magazines, but took "Hugh's Transatlantic" as the old one HP left
there. We translated "H's T" as "T under Hugh's hand" and did not
forget "borrowing it for a moment" either (Japanese readers, you do not have to
worry!). But that seems to have slipped from me somewhere. I am
sorry.
The article sounds like about HP
himself, but it also includes something confusing. We have not
heard that HP was good at what "he taught the cellmates." He may
have been, but at least he was not a pastry cook "by trade" (perhaps
it alludes to Pere Igor/Goriot).
Best wishes,
Akiko
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004
2:34 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: TT-25
Transatlantic magazine
----- Forwarded message from Petersfo@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:30:42
EST
From: Petersfo@aol.com
Editor,
96
17-18. It seems that there are two magazines here. The Swiss
gentleman
is reading the magazine that Hugh left 8 years ago.
We don't know what its
title is. Hugh picks up the
Transatlantic ( which the Swiss gentleman had
presumably just read,
and upon which he had his elbow) which is described as
among "fairly
recent periodicals" and it is that magazine which has an
article
referring to "a man who murdered his spouse eight years
ago." A kind of
parallel magazines: one old, which
Hugh had left behind; the other recent,
containing an article about
Hugh from the time of the first magazine. I think
it
is deliberate
that we might confuse the two. It makes me think of
the
phenomenon where memory can conflate two separate incidents and
turn them into
a
"false" single incident.
Peter
Washburn
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Editor,
96 17-18. It seems that there are two magazines here.
The Swiss gentleman is reading the magazine that Hugh left 8 years ago.
We don't know what its title is. Hugh picks up the Transatlantic ( which
the Swiss gentleman had presumably just read, and upon which he had his elbow)
which is described as among "fairly recent periodicals" and it is that
magazine which has an article referring to "a man who murdered his spouse
eight years ago." A kind of parallel magazines: one
old, which Hugh had left behind; the other recent, containing an article
about Hugh from the time of the first magazine. I think it is deliberate
that we might confuse the two. It makes me think of the phenomenon where
memory can conflate two separate incidents and turn them into a "false"
single incident.
Peter Washburn