Subject: Re: computer thread
oconnort@nyu.edu
Date: Sat Apr 26 1997 - 18:16:09 GMT
> 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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