Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Mar 22 ’05⁵²

Simso—

Your card, dated March 12, and postmarked March 14, arrived today — March 21! I’d thought, ah, me, one more lost love!

Hey, thank you for asking about the damnable medical stuff. I’ve now learned that there is a special seminar in third-year med school, entitled, “How to Scare the Shit Out of Patients,” in which my most recent referral MD got an A-plus. But, biopsy or no, I am again given a reprieve. To galumph onward toward senility. Next week: Drooling into my custard.

Meantime I hope I expressed enough delight in the acceptance of your book.⁵³ It’s really spectacular news, and I’m pleased as hell for you. Also glad NY went well, even without grumpy DM.

End space. Too rainy to mail. Hello Corey.

Thine—

David

52 On a card announcing the reissue of Going Down by Counterpoint in March 2005.

53 I’d recently learned that my first book, Practice, Restraint, would come out in October.