R: An Introduction + INTRODUCING MYSELF + THE PLANET !
Annalisa Baicchi (baicchi@ats.it)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:33:29 +0200
Hi, salingerians! Happy to meet you!
This is my first message to a newsgroup and, being myself a salingerian
(later i'll explain how i became a salingerian citizen) , obviously i chose
to subscribe the group of my beloved salingerian planet !
Do you think there is water on the salingerian planet? Well, i guess
there is the milk of paradise !
How can i introduce myself? Let me just tell
you that i have been living most of my earthly life without reading
anything by JDS. Fortunately i bumped into him, metaphorically speaking,
about two years ago when i was given the opportunity of analysing
the language of mythical Catcher. At the very beginning i approached it
very professionally but without getting involved emotionally too much. But
after a while the miracle of those
pages pervaded me (and i'm no longer a teenager) to the point that now i'm
here spending my holiday after Easter, which is usually spent picnicing,
writing to you, old salingerians, asking for and trying to give suggestions
about all belongs to the Planet (let me call it this way, as if "Planet"
were the nickname of JDS and his works: can i do so?)
Let me stop being silly and phoney.
Dear Maggie, I love Chicago. It' a great city and
i'm in love with it and with the States in general.
Happy you've chosen JDS for your Honour Project. I'm an English teacher
too
and I appreciate your choice in that you've plenty of material to write
your ho-pro. You say that you can show your ability to connect anything in
the world to the author. Have you already thought of a particular aspect of
JDS' works you could investigate in your ho-pro? Are you more interested
in the literary or in the linguistic phenomena ? Let me know and i'll try
to help you .
Anyway, I perfectly agree with Will when he says that Mr Salinger speaks
directly to our hearts and mind , without regard to our age: you may
be a teen or an adult, but his words speak to our soul.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
Annalisa
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> Da: VertCiel <VertCiel@aol.com>
> A: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Oggetto: An Introduction
> Data: domenica 12 aprile 1998 23.01
>
> Sorry, I know that subject line is a little cheesy. My name is Maggie
and I'm
> a high school student in Chicago. My interest in Salinger may seem
purely
> school-related, but I've found that it goes much deeper than that. As a
> sophomore, each honors student in my school must choose an author and do
an
> extensive year-long project on their major works. I chose Salinger
because I
> enjoyed reading his books, and the Honors Project can be hell if you
chose an
> author you're not comfortable.
>
> So here I am, nearing the end of my HoPro. I might also add that I'm a
> writer; or a teenager who wants to be a writer, whichever you'd prefer.
One
> of the symptoms of the HoPro is the ability to connect anything in the
world
> to your author. I've come to the conclusion that Salinger is one of the
most
> important authors of the twentieth century, if not *the* most important.
I'm
> interested in hearing what others make of an entire year of my life; also
how
> my opinions match up with those of the real world. That is, anyone
except my
> English teacher.
>
> Without digging too deeply, there is my introduction.
>
> Maggie