Subject: Re: Hapworth
From: chomi cat (ncp87@postmark.net)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 11:42:41 GMT
Hello Lucy-Ruth,
>I have only read it once, but it made me deeply uncomfortable. I
> couldn't decide how convincing I found it as the work of a seven year
> old genius, or how to view the sexual comments he makes, partivcularly
> in light of his marriage with Muriel.
[...]
> So, I was wondering how other people reacted (first impressions) to the
> story.
I remember being very excited when I received the story, thanks to a
kind Bananafisher -
But I had read before how this story greatly divided Salinger
readers, how uncomfortable they felt about Seymour's verbosity, his
silly reading list and precocious hormonal urges
Hapworth made me laugh and laugh, though, because this endless letter
was just so...hopelessly un-Seymour, well, the haiku-breathing Seymour
I like to picture anyway (also, didn't Buddy just loved to bring up
the fact that his mystic brother was the family member who wrote the
less amount of letters, and the shortest ones too - just imagine the
others!)
In my opinion, Buddy has a very strange sense of humour, and I like
to stay with the romantic notion that little Seymour never wrote much
anything else than the wonderful John Keats poem. I love him for that,
I would also love to know what everyone thinks
Nathalie
enjoying her last day at work before months and months of holidays
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