Budding writer

Rollo Rumford (rollo.rumford@cwcom.net)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:47:55 +0100

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    i dont know if i asked this before or not but, firstly, what stories
are supposed to have been written by Buddy? Secondly, to what end? why
attribute stories to him? i KNOW theres a lot in this somewhere so
please lets discuss it.
    i was wondering originally because APDFB, if 'written' by Buddy,
becomes a fictional account of Seymour's death- if written by Salinger
we know it to be a truthful account, if you see what im saying.
Therefore, it becomes a fictional account (buddy wasnt there) of the
suicide of a fictional, VOICELESS (someone used the term 'idea')
character (the elusive seymour), written by a fictional brother (buddy).

    There must be a point in all this, rather than just to prove the
point that Buddy is a writer. If that were the point, then wouldnt it
have been more important to have published some of seymours 184 poems to
prove hes a poet?
ok ta very much

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    i dont know if i asked this before or not but, firstly, what stories are supposed to have been written by Buddy? Secondly, to what end? why attribute stories to him? i KNOW theres a lot in this somewhere so please lets discuss it.
    i was wondering originally because APDFB, if 'written' by Buddy, becomes a fictional account of Seymour's death- if written by Salinger we know it to be a truthful account, if you see what im saying. Therefore, it becomes a fictional account (buddy wasnt there) of the suicide of a fictional, VOICELESS (someone used the term 'idea') character (the elusive seymour), written by a fictional brother (buddy).
    There must be a point in all this, rather than just to prove the point that Buddy is a writer. If that were the point, then wouldnt it have been more important to have published some of seymours 184 poems to prove hes a poet?
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