This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE873B.3DBEFEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You know, I can hardly even smoke a damned cigarette in any detached way = since reading Franny many years back. (The shaping of the ash, etc.) I = think of that invariably and feel like our man Zooey in the way that he = cannot eat a meal without reciting, internally or aloud, = the_________________. (What was that exactly?) I forgot and don't want = to botch it up. I am at work without reference. (Aside from you all.) Hope all is well for you where you sit. -Jake. -----Original Message----- From: Rollo Rumford <rollo.rumford@cwcom.net> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu> Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 11:14 AM Subject: cigarettes and pants =20 =20 this is so unworthwhile and irrelevant, i just had to bring it up!!=20 1. Apart from some females and all children in the stories, EVERYONE = smokes. A hell of a lot. I only noticed it because Salinger always seems = to describe HOW the ciggy was lit, what type of lighter is used, and who = owns it.=20 2. So many of Salinger's characters, too, have ill- fitting 'pants' = (we call them trousers in england) around the 'seat'. The 'pants' tend = to be too big there. Or at least if Salinger has blessed a character = with decent fitting clothes, he still puts in a reference to the seat of = their 'pants' somehow. No point here at all. But I swear if i were a = writer all my characters would wear fitted clothes and hats. I wouldnt = go cheap on them and make them look silly as salinger does.=20 now that ive reduced the discussion to this, ill let you get on = with it.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE873B.3DBEFEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BE873B.3DBEFEA0-------Original = Message-----this is so unworthwhile and = irrelevant, i=20 just had to bring it up!!=20
From:=20 Rollo Rumford <rollo.rumford@cwcom.net>To:=20 bananafish@lists.nyu.edu=20 <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>=
Date:=20 Thursday, April 15, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: cigarettes = and=20 pants1. Apart from some females and all children in the stories, = EVERYONE=20 smokes. A hell of a lot. I only noticed it because Salinger always = seems to=20 describe HOW the ciggy was lit, what type of lighter is used, and = who owns=20 it.
2. So many of Salinger's characters, too, have ill- fitting = 'pants'=20 (we call them trousers in england) around the 'seat'. The 'pants' = tend to be=20 too big there. Or at least if Salinger has blessed a character with = decent=20 fitting clothes, he still puts in a reference to the seat of their = 'pants'=20 somehow. No point here at all. But I swear = if i were=20 a writer all my characters would wear fitted clothes and hats. I = wouldnt go=20 cheap on them and make them look silly as salinger does.=20now that ive reduced the discussion to this, = ill let=20 you get on with it.