Subject: Re: bananafish-digest V1 #279 -Reply
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 1997 - 17:59:19 GMT
>I finished the book. It's a touching story, comic because the boy wants
>to do so much and can't do anything. Hates all phoniness and only lies to
>others. Wants everyone to like him, is only hateful, and is completely
>self-involved. In other words, a pretty accurate picture of a male
>adolescent.
If anyone ever says this to you punch them in the nose.
>But the aura around this book of Salinger's - which perhaps should be
>read by everyone but young men - is this: It mirrors like a fun house
>mirror and amplifies like a distorted speaker one of the great tragedies of
>our times - the death of the imagination.
WHAT A LOAD!
>I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the
>real world.
Vise versa.
>Jung says the greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Not sure about this one. Did he?
>Our boy Holden says "What scares me most is the other guy's face - it
>wouldn't be so bad if you could both be blindfolded - most of the time the
>faces we face are not the other guys' but our own faces. And it's the
>worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself you put blindfolds
>on rather than deal with yourself..."
*Our boy Holden,* PLEASE!
Movies! Don't even mention them to me.
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