Re: collecting salinger
bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:36:38 -0700
>i know this is yesterday's news.... but
> the very fact that we were discussing getting hold of his
>unpublished (?) works suggests that although we may be treading around
>the law, there is a moral issue at stake. much as im unhappy about to
>say this, to go around mailing his stuff around willy nilly (when we
>know he probably wounldnt like it) is rather like saying "we respect
>you- we just dont respect your wishes and beliefs."
> (or is that utter rubbish?)
i could see a moral dilemma if we were talking about manuscripts someone had
stole from his house after breaking it
but he wrote them and published them in magazines
don't you think that means he wants people to read them?
he went so far as to publish them
but they're hard to find, so the people who have come across them then go
and share them...where's the betrayal in that? he published them! you
think he'd be sitting in his house going ,
"goddammit, those jerks are reading that stuff i wrote and put in major
magazines!!! how could they!?!?"