Brief e-mail exchange between members of a group I meet with on a more-or-less weekly basis. (For edification: the first two are peers of mine, and the last is a former professor of mine, and an aged and esteemed friend—and why, you shall see.)
From: N. West
To: Kenton R Craven, et al
Subject: SilmarilianReminder!
We will be meeting at 6-6:30 at Crawdaddies to begin
reading Tolkien's the Silmarilian. Feel free to join!
But for the squeamish, there will be beer.From: E. Jones
Subject: Re: SilmarilianTo clarify...( for dumbasses like myself) The meeting is not
from 6:00- 6:30. That is just a rough estimate of the time
of arrival. It appeared, when I first read it, that this
would be a thirty minute reading. Please pardon the
correction, N—...From: R. K. Craven
Subject: Re: SilmarilianMore clarification. It's "Silmarillion," not "Silmarilian," and R. Kenton Craven, not Kenton R. Craven. But I believe "dumbass" is spelled correctly . . . .
Owned. Owned by a man forty years your senior.
