Summit of ambition
Sir: I enjoyed Charles Moore's 'Another voice' of 6 April. I imagine an editor of any sort of magazine or newspaper perpetually engulfed in a blizzard of unsolicited letters, essays, and articles blowing in from all sorts of loony goons. I am one of the many flakes in the blizzard that swirl about the editorial Alps. Why do we bother writing to editors? Why should anyone want to climb the north face of Mount Everest? Because, by jingo, it's there.
What fun it is to compose those letters, what a challenge to write those essays, to attempt to scale the dizzying heights. We fail, the 99.9 recurring percentage of us, to reach the summit of publication, the sum- mit where we may bask in the clear air and sunshine and admire the view. Most of us slip up on the ice of the polite rejection letter, lose our grip and plummet earth- wards. Undaunted we pick ourselves up and try again — sometimes even resorting to the use of a nom-de-plume.
A. W. Donovan-Shead
4640 South Gary Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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