Comments on: Rest assured, I’m a doll

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:01:30 +0000

I would have loved to sit with Jean-Paul Sartre in a café over a glass of wine and philosophize about life and his, The Roads To Freedom, books. Or how wonderful it would have been to have a glass of port in a tavern with W. Somerset Maugham and pick his brain. Of Human Bondage has been one of my all time favorite books since I first read it freshman year when I was 14.

If I could go back in time to last year, my choice would be to spend an afternoon having tea with Maeve Binchy. I have every single novel she’s written and I can just picture the two of us laughing over tea and scones! Yes, there’s a lot of drinking going on, but you don’t live in Paris and socialize without a drink in hand!

By: Joelle

Joelle — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:32:56 +0000

Well, it’s not exactly the same, but I harboured a crush on a singer/songwriter for five years before we met, fell in love, and have now been married/together for ten years. And yeah, his music and singing got my attention, but the words to his songs were what really made me think we belonged together.

When we finally did start talking it was by letter and phone from 2500 miles apart, so more words….

In a totally platonic way, I’ve been corresponding with the author John Rowe Townsend for 21 Years. I wrote him a fan letter (he lives in England) and he’s encouraged me and my writing for all these years. I finally met him in 2006 (he’s 91 this year).

And an agent posted a bit of one of her writer’s new books online, which got me talking to the writer(Eileen Cook) about seven years ago, and she’s now my best friend.

So…as you can see, I’m way into fan letters!

By: EDWARD

EDWARD — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:54:28 +0000

O! THE PLACES YOU’LL GO. Being understood is a bit of a turn-on. After a lifetime of being misunderstood by everyone you meet, being understood by an author is a real turn-on. Even an author who is long dead. I noticed you, as a female, were quite diligent to sticking to male writers in your quest for love fantasies. This is not about having sex; this is about getting your soul validated. Although the experience feels like sex and intimacy, it’s not. It’s something spiritual, or is for me at any event, and can occur with writers male or female, living or dead. In view of the weight this spiritual experience carries, the physical element tends to be an afterthought. Am I making sense? We can discuss it further. Let’s meet after work for a cup of coffee.