Re: wood it be.

TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 19:13:02 -0700 (PDT)

---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
wrote:
>
> Mine would have to be, in no real order (it's like
saying which order you
> like you children in). I've taken `book' here to
mean anything that can be
> written on paper and clamped between two covers :
> 
> 1) The Catcher in the Rye - who else ???
> 
> 2) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
> 
> 3) `A Dream Within A Dream' - Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
> 
> 4) The Complete Works of Shakespeare
> 
> 5) `14 Stories' - Heinrich Boll
> 
> These are the books I'd probably pick up on the way
out of any given
> burning building (:
> 
> By the way, what do you think of `The Bell Jar'. I
read it because I'd
> heard it called `the female equivalent of `The
Catcher in the Rye' so many
> times, but I must confess I never made it all the
way through - I thought
> it was suprisingly badly written; a classic example
of the wrong way to
> utilise your own experiences in your artmaking
(i.e. just presenting
> taxidermies of them in a nicer frame). 
> 
> Camille 
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE
> www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> 
> 
> 

i've read it. it provides some insight into the poems
in ariel. and others. like "a smile fell in the
grass" which you will only really understand after
the bell jar and the line about losing it in
mathmatics which becomes multi-explanitory. because
of the mathmatician named Paul and her need to excel
in school. i confess though the school part i hadn't
thought of until now. because it probably wasn't
intended. although ariel and it's poems are perfectly
affecting without the extra help. it is not the
female version of the catcher in the rye. i don't
think the female version would be any different other
than Holden would be Jane maybe and Jane would be
Holden. if it even needs to go as far as changing the
names. there's a haunting line (or at least one
that's haunting me at the moment) which i think is
from the bell jar. something like "don't ever commit
suicide, something good always happens" which i know
very well is not the line and i'm pretty sure
(although i don't know where i would have read one)
it's from a letter to her mother about a girl who was
talking with sylvia and then got a date. the girl
said the line in sylvia's version.

paul.
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