tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post5606587105135175201..comments2022-04-05T13:29:48.111-04:00Comments on Garments of Fleas: Edelman-Eggers Letters 10Regina Edelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-21056814376252858372009-12-02T22:43:25.075-05:002009-12-02T22:43:25.075-05:00Thank you so much Regina for sharing your experien...Thank you so much Regina for sharing your experiences with us. I really have enjoyed reading them. You're clearly a talented writer with self belief. I am totally behind you for continuing the fight.<br /><br />HindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-25507743827949140822009-11-14T18:33:04.415-05:002009-11-14T18:33:04.415-05:00Dear Kleo,
Thank you so much for sharing your vie...Dear Kleo,<br /><br />Thank you so much for sharing your view and sympathy for my personal story.<br /><br />I will tell you another story from a chapter of my experiences: A homeless child scratched the door of a car parked in front of the boardinghouse where I lived in São Paulo. The owner of the car arrived coinciding with the moment the boy practiced his crime. The boy ran. The owner of the Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-56710397196936168832009-11-12T02:13:35.089-05:002009-11-12T02:13:35.089-05:00Thank you Regina for posting and narrating this as...Thank you Regina for posting and narrating this as some kind of personal story about you, and for sharing your emotional responses to the dry and ever-so-familiar exchange of letters between a woman with dreams and The Man she thinks may help her realize them.<br /><br />The story of one woman escaping poverty and dirt and the vast emptiness of ignorance is the story of a better future for the Kleo Pullinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-15753665174764036852009-11-11T17:27:35.483-05:002009-11-11T17:27:35.483-05:00Thank you so much, Jack and Linda, for your suppor...Thank you so much, Jack and Linda, for your supportive compassion. You can’t imagine how grateful Regina and I are to know that there are still people in the world who know what ethically is an obligation of an honorable man.<br /><br />No, Jack, Dave Eggers can’t be anonymous. Dave hasn’t read Garments of Fleas to know Regina’s intelligence she sincerely told him she possessed and patiently Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-35784833640817539852009-11-09T13:02:29.112-05:002009-11-09T13:02:29.112-05:00How else is a writer supposed to get published if ...How else is a writer supposed to get published if not by asking a publisher (who accepts queries) to read their work? Eggers didn't have to write this lady back asking for her manuscript. According to her narrative, she couldn't believe her good fortune the great Dave Eggers asked to read her work. At any point he could have just said, I'm too busy to read your work, but yes, Eggers Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-64749805911374657162009-11-08T15:52:47.857-05:002009-11-08T15:52:47.857-05:00The letters speak for themselves. Having read them...The letters speak for themselves. Having read them from start to finish, I feel most certainly from the bottom of my heart that Dave Eggers led Regina Edelman on. I might suggest that she didn't embarrass him, that Dave Eggers embarrassed himself, and that this woman deserves an apology. Man up, Dave, and make it right! Her work is brilliant!<br /><br />I also don't believe that AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-28232123579315504762009-11-07T19:52:15.534-05:002009-11-07T19:52:15.534-05:00Good evening, Anonymous. It's hard for me to w...Good evening, Anonymous. It's hard for me to write back to an anonymous attacking from the dark. Why do you hide your identity? It would be good to see who you are, a lady or a gentleman. Forgive me if your outrageous cowardice doesn’t allow me to address you cordially.<br /><br />I don’t expect apologies from Dave Eggers. My husband thinks Dave owes me apologies. You think he doesn’t. It’s Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-5446542943822534872009-11-07T01:52:25.258-05:002009-11-07T01:52:25.258-05:00Is it outrageous, anonymous, that you found this b...Is it outrageous, anonymous, that you found this blog by chance as an objective observer? You say you don’t know Dave Eggers at all, but you know how busy the man is? Dear fantastically masked, please allow me truth and reason…<br /><br />It’s untrue that Regina wrote that Dave Eggers would read her manuscript. True, he answered her query by asking her to send him her manuscript by all means, Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-26272531575021552242009-11-06T21:13:58.554-05:002009-11-06T21:13:58.554-05:00This is all somewhat outrageous. And I mean Regina...This is all somewhat outrageous. And I mean Regina's side of this. <br /><br />I found this blog by chance looking for someone else. I don't know you, Regina, or Dave Eggers. But to be quite honest as an objective observer, I think that you are being unfair to Dave Eggers. I certainly don't believe he owes you an apology!<br /><br />You keep saying he asked to read your manuscript. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-59745303186474286072009-05-31T12:59:39.035-04:002009-05-31T12:59:39.035-04:00Typo correction to previous comment: 3/27/2009 sho...Typo correction to previous comment: 3/27/2009 should read 5/27/2009Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-37820881369765300932009-05-31T12:41:14.683-04:002009-05-31T12:41:14.683-04:00Dear Reader,
As I suspected, the new comment I rec...Dear Reader,<br />As I suspected, the new comment I received above on 3/27/2009 at 12:08 PM regarding Edelman-Eggers Letters 10—from an anonymous signed D.E. so that I would believe it was a vague apology from Dave Eggers—is a hoax. I knew it was a hoax when I got the e-mail; that’s why I asked D.E. to contact me in private, but I havn't received any contact from Dave Eggers. As far as I know, Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-55418058048050448002009-05-27T16:37:06.109-04:002009-05-27T16:37:06.109-04:00Dear D.E.,
It’s a funny coincidence that you have ...Dear D.E.,<br />It’s a funny coincidence that you have the same initials as my husband Daryl Edelman. There are so many people with initials D.E., but I want to believe that the D.E. on this message posted on my blog means Dave Eggers, and you Dave really sent it to me. If so, I’m so happy to receive it and accept your apology. I’ll be delighted to send you my manuscript again because I wanted Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-43912540163177656452009-05-27T12:08:52.518-04:002009-05-27T12:08:52.518-04:00Dear Regina,
I'm sorry for any pain I might have ...Dear Regina,<br /><br />I'm sorry for any pain I might have caused. Could you send your manuscript again?<br /><br />Thx,<br /><br />D.E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-80386666985942244072009-05-21T19:22:05.017-04:002009-05-21T19:22:05.017-04:00Thank you for your comments. I'm not afraid of Dav...Thank you for your comments. I'm not afraid of Dave Eggers or whoever--that is why I am not anonymous--because I'm a citizen of Earth made of the same matter as anybody else, with brain, nervous system... Like my blog, ants are little too, yet they strongly exist in the cosmos, and on the same level as us humans; perhaps their intelligence raises us for food like we raise cows and chickens. Do Regina Edelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292617547644965633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-91265183561877843232009-05-21T17:56:13.648-04:002009-05-21T17:56:13.648-04:00Regina, I'm glad to see you venting your frustrati...Regina, I'm glad to see you venting your frustrations while honing your writing skills. I enjoyed reading your little blog. Sorry things didn't work out. It's like we in the biz like to say, "that's the way the cookie crumbles."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039617407384936237.post-53735671840415012952009-02-09T21:08:00.000-05:002009-02-09T21:08:00.000-05:00Regina:It is such a shame that people in power man...Regina:<BR/>It is such a shame that people in power many a time behave so poorly - displaying a scant regard for basic human values of honesty and integrity! <BR/><BR/>-NanditaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com