Re: Raise High.. long, on-topic
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 11:46:47 -0600 (MDT)
Not only is learning from content wise as mattis suggest, but I was truly
taken with his prose and enjoyed the following screen as much as any I've
been lucky enough to find on bananafish--thanks mattis, will
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Mattis Fishman wrote:
>
> While I'm at it, and way down here at the bottom, I would like to add
> to the number of categories of Salinger-readers/list-participants. Besides
> those writers sitting in the front row to see which sleeve El Salingeri pulls
> his literary gems from, and those of us so involved in the virtual lives
> of our heros that we would pay good money for the contents of one of
> Seymour's used handkerchiefs or Holden's hunting hat (I do not mean to deride
> anyone here, being, like Schrodinger's poor cat, in both those groups myself.
> Furthermore, and this is directed at the person who originally made a similar
> distinction between our members, I really am aware that you were not trying
> to place an upper limit on the various types of possible reading experiences.
> I simply am using this as an introduction to my own addition, to follow.)
> I highly doubt that I am the only one who reads in order to learn something.
> After finishing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" I was ready to avoid sleeping
> in strange beds at all costs. Well, for me, the lesson I see in RHTRBC, which
> I do not care to articulate here, has taken me 25 years so far to assimilate,
> and may take another 25, but was worth the price of admission.
>