From: butlerh@wkac.ac.uk
To: mcgucken@augustus0.physics.unc.edu
Subject: Drake Raft
Hello there Elliot..
You may be wondering who the hell i am.. well i met you two summers ago
in Linda's bar on Franklin St. I was the English nanny, friends with
the spanish girl Pillar. Well anyway i read your book that you sold
me..The Drake Raft Field Trip (The Tragedy of Drake Raft). I was really
engrossed by it when i took it babysitting with me and their dogs decided
they wanted it for lunch.. So now i am left at the part where they were
gonna have a concert?? What the hell happened at the end.. please tell
me.. I hope that you are still using this Email. from Hazel Butler.
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS: Avast! I've seen liberals do the same thing to
Shakespeare! Of course we'll send ye a new on!
Ahoy! Stop by often and check out the cool pictures from our adventures out here at The Roger's Lodge in Nag's Head!
Avast! Drop the crew
a line!
From: ugmtjh6961@-------
To: drake@jollyroger.com
Subject: I know
your pen Captain, or maybe I should say Elliot,
Ahoy how ye be
good matie? I tried to send this mail once, but apparently I have screwed
up and will have to send it again. I have just finished reading your news
letter for this month. It says you're a ghost. Well I will tell you
Captain or maybe I should say Elliot, I know your pen, and the true answer
to the mystery of the Jolly Roger. I haven't spoken until now out of love
for your work. The fact still stands that by any name you hold a pretty
pen. I have read The Drake Raft
Field trip and loved it. I tip my hat to ye, to speak the truth
can be a hard thing to do. At the same time running a ship can be a hard
thing to do as well. I dabble both in html and in writing poetry, and I
lend my fingers or my pen to your service. I currently am going to order
my own copy of the D.R.F.T. and your sonnets, I would like to support the
good ship as much a possible. If there was a time when I wanted to send
the good ship a picture, a little art work, how would I go about it? Take
care of yourself Elliot, may the Lord protect you and keep you.
At
the Good Ship's service,
John Harrell
THE CAPTAIN RESPONDS: At yer
service, matie, and God bless ye too. Please feel free to send any poetry
or artwork to www.jollyroger.com.
From: WRalph@----
To: drake@jollyroger.com
Subject: the drake raft field trip
elliot-
i am loving your book. every un-PC joke my brother and i ever
made is in there - the far side lab guy, lesbegay magazine and feminist
literature (clittorally speaking is perfect) and the chinese assistant who
speaks no english etc etc. i love the kids' reactions to everything, like
response of pretending to be homeless to increase sensitivity. i guess
they're what older people call refreshing but it's just that they are what
we all think and no one says. there is some author, and of course i can't
remember who it is right now, whom i love just because he/she always knows
exactly what is going on in people's heads. em forster maybe. i'll
remember later. all the college stuff is totally true to life - the
secret societies, the social life, the theater people, and i love the fact
that drake got kicked out of class b/c his poems rhymed. every little
nuance actually exists. the people are reminding me of friends of mine.
it's great. i hope this jolly roger mission of yours succeeds. if i
weren't here, i'd help. write back. weatherly
From: Alicia Triche
To: drake@jollyroger.com
Subject: QUALITY
Hi--
Okay, I don't know who you guys are, I've only breezed through most of
the pages in this web site in, like, the past five minutes (so, did that
letter to Rolling Stone actually get published?) but I just have to tell
you something!!
I just read the first bit of the excerpt you have from the Drake Raft
Field trip thing, and it's actually really good!! Let me explain how
exciting this is to me--I NEVER think anything is good that was written
after, say, 1950 or so. I am sick and I mean SICK of gratuitous,
insincere, disgusting references to whatever bodily fluids will get
people published. Like, the swishy butt in "Even Cowgirls Get the
Blues," and basically every story Walter Kirn ever wrote, and for God's
sake, I just read something by modern "acclaimed" author Jessica
Treadway that talks about breast milk! NONE of this was actually an
integral part of any, like, PLOT, either.
But this story you guys have posted, it's pretty sincere, and you've got
the language of our generation down pretty accurately, and it was a
lovely experience for me, to read it. I've always had this fantasy that
there would be modern books that match the quality of all the classics I
love to read--is that what you guys are about?
Please don't put me on a mailing list or anything; I don't have any
money to buy anything, I am just some grad school spit-out trying to
squeak by & find a permanent job but maybe one day, after I figure out
how to get my own novels published you guys can say hey! We knew her
when! She was going around looking for Fitzgerald in a hay stack-- but
meanwhile, I just wanted to say, good job, and I really mean that, And I
haven't seen anything quite so brilliant in anything I've read that was
written so recently.
Sincerely,
Alicia
From: "C. Lyle"
To: drake@jollyroger.com
Subject: The Word
I can't believe that I sat here and read this whole thing. It's almost
3:00 am and I don't usually read this much this late. I would normally
copy it and read it later, but I just couldn't stop reading. I know I
will be thinking about this for days to come. The story comes at you
from all angles, and has an incredible mixture of ideas. I love where
you seem to be going with this. I can't wait to read the rest of the
story.
and it had that fresh smell to it-- you know, that one fresh
springy smell that doesn't really smell like anything except for
itself. You know the kind I mean, and if you don't,
you're missing out , so first chance you have, go out sometime
right after an afternoon June thunderstorm, and
breathe deeply, and then you'll know what I mean.
Yes, I know what you mean. It revives your soul and makes you want to
live forever.
Crissala
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