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Post by johnVC on Apr 5, 2023 17:19:18 GMT
Submission: "Here Anyway", [REDACTED] johnVC, 4946 words
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC <[REDACTED]@gmail.com>
Attachments
Mon, Feb 27, 12:51 PM
TO: rorschalk
Dear Vetters,
I like your website and I like Barthelme (God, meh), so here's a token of my appreciation.
Cheers, [REDACTED] johnVC
[REDACTED] johnVC lives in lower Manhattan where he has produced an international employee benefits law digest for a couple of decades. His fiction and CNF work have appeared in several publications. Some stories are linked here: linktr.ee/pdsnmo400
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Post by rorschalk on Apr 5, 2023 17:24:36 GMT
Theodore Q. Rorschalk <tqrstories@gmail.com>
Wed, Mar 1, 8:14 AM
to [REDACTED] johnVC
Dear Mr. [REDACTED] VC,
My apologies for the delay in confirmation of receipt of your capital. We're falling behind a bit, the center cannot hold is the type of existential malaise we're kind of sort of dealing with these latter daze here at TQR and I here tell in a broader sense several millions of other spaces...so, if we could agree to come together, regardless of our preconceived notions about the world and know that one and one and one makes three, then please allow TQR to get its house together in these next 5 weeks, an arbitrary designation I grant you, but please do send this back then (in 5 weeks) and we should be good to go.
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Post by johnVC on Apr 5, 2023 17:30:17 GMT
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC
Wed, Mar 1, 8:27 AM
TO: rorschalk
Thanks. I've made a note to resubmit on April 5th.
FIVE WEEKS LATAH
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC
8:15 AM (3 hours ago)
TO: rorschalk
Hi Theodore,
I hope these five weeks have been salubrious. Yesterday sure was. Probably worth mentioning that the attached venture is about a guy taking an open-ended sabbatical to recalibrate his contribution to his organization. It's already a sinecure, but more draining than it needs to be.
Regards, [REDACTED] johnVC
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Post by rorschalk on Apr 5, 2023 17:36:58 GMT
FROM: Theodore Q. Rorschalk <tqrstories@gmail.com>
11:33 AM (1 minute ago)
TO: [REDACTED] johnVC
More like lugubrious...but that's beside the point. Barthelme is God! We'll give HERE ANYWAY a spin. Stay a while and strap in.
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Post by johnVC on Apr 5, 2023 20:27:08 GMT
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC
2:19 PM (5 minutes ago)
TO: rorschalk
Thanks!
I never met Donald Barthelme but I have a couple of (very reverent) anecdotes to share later.
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Post by rorschalk on Apr 5, 2023 20:36:13 GMT
FROM:Theodore Q. Rorschalk
2:33 PM (0 minutes ago)
TO: [REDACTED] johnVC
Dear Mr. [REDACTED] VC, aside from the venture capital angle of this transaction, have you ever thought of becoming a capital manager yourself? A vetter, if you will. Rockefeller's overworked and undersexed still on the floor, maybe you could fix his wagon, one way or the other. Just something for you to chew on. You seem like an agreeable fellow, pointed in the right direction as far as calling balls and strikes on venture capital goes. There are several avatars to choose from, ours or you could even choose your own.
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Post by johnVC on Apr 6, 2023 15:28:06 GMT
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC
9:21 AM (4 minutes ago)
TO: rorschalk
Thank you for the gracious invitation. I'm already keeping way too many spinning plates aloft. Among other things, I have two novels overdue for massive revision and I've learned that editing yourself is approx as impossible as tickling yourself. Been setting ambushes. Good luck getting someone astute to pitch in.
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Post by rorschalk on Apr 6, 2023 15:35:29 GMT
FROM: Theodore Q. Rorschalk <tqrstories@gmail.com>
9:32 AM (0 minutes ago)
TO: [REDACTED] johnVC
Curses! Foiled again...
Indeed, editing your own novels is drudgery and then you end up rewriting them, and then that entails more editing and then more rewriting, which leads to more editing (!!!!!!!!)... welcome to a self-perpetuating churn into the mouths of madness that may never end... viddy well, poor droog.
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Post by johnVC on Apr 6, 2023 15:53:19 GMT
FROM: [REDACTED] johnVC
9:43 AM (6 minutes ago)
TO: The Rorschalk
Thanks!
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