Subject: Re: computer thread
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 27 1997 - 16:32:53 GMT
in some ways salinger reminds me of an archetypical lurker...and the more
deeply I become entangled in his fiction, the more I begin to believe
little is beyond his insight, and certainly listening to "amateur
readers" might well be within his interest however please mr. list
manager, do not, I repeat do not take this thread to a point where our
addresses become known beyond our posts to the list. Lurkers, I believe,
are entitled to their silence! will
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
>
> > obsalinger: have we had, over the past year+, any indication that
> > Salinger realizes we're here, doing what we are (which is chatting about
> > his fiction between substantive digressions, I guess)?
>
> Somehow I doubt it. I recall, in an article in Life during the 1960s,
> a remark about how any mention of him in the press would slow him down
> drastically, because of the distraction it caused him. One can only
> imagine the distraction as well as the occasional consternation this
> forum would cause him!
>
> (I mean not that this is a bad forum, but that it's hard for even the
> most broad-minded writer to hear other people discuss his work and not
> react with at least a little bit of, "Hey, that's not what I meant!")
>
> Maybe his agents scan the list to make sure we don't infringe or violate
> any "fair use" guidelines in terms of quoting JDS's words. <*grin*>
>
> --tim o'connor
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