SLSL Intro "It is only fair to warn ..."

[Dave Monroe]

"It is only fair to warn even the most kindly disposed
of readers that there are some mighty tiresome
passages here, juvenile and delinquent too. At the
same time, my best hope is that, pretentious, goofy
and ill-considered as they get now and then, these
stories will still be of use with all their flaws
intact, as illustrative of typical problems in
entry-level fiction, and cautionary about some
practices which younger writers might prefer to
avoid." (SL, "Intro," p. 4)

Cf. ...

Rilke, Rainer Maria.  Letters to a Young Poet.
   Trans. M.D. Herter Norton.  New York:
   W.W. Norton & Co., 1993 (1929).

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/backlist/031039.htm

And, online ...

http://web.mit.edu/port/www/pdf/Rilke.pdf

http://www.sfgoth.com/~immanis/rilke/index.html

http://www.rilke.de/briefe/briefe_index.htm

Cf. as well ...

"... one of those episodes of middle-aged tranquility,
in which I now pretend to have reached a level of
clarity about the young writer I was back then.  I
mean I can't very well just 86 this guy from my life. 
On the other hand, if through some as yet undeveloped
technology I were to run into him today, how
comfortable would I feel about lending him money, or
for that matter even stepping down the street to have
a beer and talk over old times?" (SL, "Intro," p. 3)

Let me know ...

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