Subject: Re: John Keats/John Keats/John/ Please put your scarf on.
Smmrs@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 16 2000 - 11:38:03 EDT
In a message dated Tue, 11 Apr 2000 5:21:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Mattis Fishman <mattis@argoscomp.com> writes:
> 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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