Re: autograph

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In a message dated 4/26/98 7:34:25 AM CST, Bethany.M.Edstrom@Dartmouth.EDU
writes:

> Yeah., that guy has something JDS--along with a couple dozen postal
workers-- 
> probably touched. Personally, I'd rather "have" his ideas and his stories,

one doesn't exclude the other
 
> which he did more than touch--he labored over them. If we subject Salinger
to 
> the treatment accorded a Hollywood star, we are lowering his work as well to
> the level of those mass-culture icons.

You don't think this list has already done that?  This list seems to have
become pretty self important.  How would he view the endless nitpicking and
disection?  In an effort to "discover" something new about his work, you grasp
at the most absurd ideas, eventually sapping any enjoyment from the
experience.  Whatever happened to the amatuer reader?

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