Subject: Re: computer thread
oconnort@nyu.edu
Date: Sun Apr 27 1997 - 10:35:02 GMT
> I personally feel that he might have it easier if did not try to hide and
> would not be so strict about his privacy. I am sure that his attitude
> towards publicity makes him much more interesting. If people could read
> his opinions and texts in magazines etc. we perhaps would not be this
> curious anymore.
That is a good point; but in American culture, at least, to reach that
plateau means going up and over a mountain of attention and nonsense to
reach the point where your opinions and remarks are so commonplace that
people will be satisfied with them and will leave you alone. Perhaps it
was the nature of publicity in the 1950s and 1960s that pushed JDS to
the situation we know.
> Another thing..there are a lot of in my opinion pretty meaningless quotes
> and parrts of his texts in the net..as if they were put there only to
> annoy JDS. Do you think that these people are hoping to get an angry
> response from him or his lawyers?
I find that for many people (myself included), some passages of his are
touchstones. They may not be inherently meaningful, but they say
something that I react to. Such may be the case with what you find.
This is why I'm intrigued by Will's project on Salinger's readership.
By the way, given the nature of JDS's history with people he feels are
infringing on his rights, it is self-defeating for anyone out here to
quote more than a snippet. Nobody wants to be on the receiving end
of a "cease and desist" letter! Actually, I don't think I'd mind it if
it came from the author, but I don't much want to do business with his
attorneys....
--tim o'connor
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