Re: Collecting Salinger
Byrd, Steven T (BYRDS@papa.uncp.edu)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:49:19 +0000
i am in favor of it as well. there are tons of places-particularly on the
Internet-where people who share a common interest or hobby (take a particular
band's music for example) trade special, exclusive, hard to get, or
sometimes downright illegal things to one another. Fans helping fans so
to speak. I'm not sure if this should go totally public (we'd be shut
down in a week if we did) but why not here on the list? I mean, we all
bothered to log on to this mailing list and agreed to clog our email
accounts and the accounts of others with trivial talk of our favorite
author. I think such devotion should be rewarded. It's not illegal to
trade these things friend to friend, and my personal opinion that any
objection on the basis of "principle" is thinly veiled eltism and a
monster double standard to boot. I mean, if you have the stories, but you
won't trade them because "Salinger wouldn't want it that way," well then,
it begs the question "How the hell do you get them?" or "How would
Salinger feel about YOU having them?" And don't feed us any "you should
find them in local libraries yourself" is simply unreasonable given the
fact that some of us live backwoods areas that are still trapped in the
Stone Age or else outside of the country. We should be inclusive instead
of exclusive, after all, we'll all in this together. Just my two cents.
--steve
P.S. I would be happy to contribute the stories I have to this noble
effort.