Subject: Re: John Keats/John Keats/John/ Please put your scarf on.
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 17:09:53 EDT
Cecilia Ann Baader wrote, among much else:
>So if you look at Hapworth as not a letter from Seymour to his parents, but
>as the final chapter in Buddy's posthumous relationship with Seymour, it
>opens up a whole new facet to the story. Because we're finally seeing what
>seems to be the real Seymour Glass. Flawed, but finally whole.
I know this is only a small segment of your post, but I think I am
not doing you an injustice by using it to point out that your point,
that we now seeing a whole, if flawed, Seymour, is true irrespective of
whether we say that this is Salinger trying to fill in the white space
(or cover his mistakes, as Ms. Kakutani might suggest) or Buddy
giving us his version. And as it appears to me, Buddy is not prominent
in Hapworth.
As a matter of fact I thought I saw you slip in that this is Seymour
*without* Buddy's rose colored glasses here, in contrast to what I had
thought you were saying originally that there is as much Buddy here as S.
Droit de senorita?
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I always appreciate it.
regards,
Mattis
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