Subject: Re: sricks & stones
From: Victoria Lloyd (v_k_lloyd@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 12:09:05 GMT
I always thought it was a perfectly ordinary, girl's name, if a bit
oldfashioned. Salinger certainly seems to like these old fashioned
"meaningful" names - "Seymour" is practically a pun - Esme means, I think,
beloved. Which is also apt.
Victoria
>From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Subject: sricks & stones
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:52:16 +0100
>
>
> Can you tell us, Jake, which sex is Esme in the Saki
> story? I could never understand why Salinger used what
> I would have assumed was the male version of Esmee -
> which isn't all that rare. There used to be an actor
> in British films called Esme (I've forgotten his surname)
> but he looked distinctly froglike in both senses of the word.
>
> There was a time in the distant past when my one sole
> cousin was a girl called Esma. She won the battle for
> the affections of my grandmother - a creature as repellant
> as herself - & for the past fifty years I haven't had the slightest
> knowledge or interest in what happened to her.
>
> Come to the think of it, the only Jake I ever knew
> personally (apart from the hero of The Sun Also Rises)
> was a grand uncle whose one claim to fame in our
> small Scottish town was that he'd taken an active part
> in the great San Francisco earthquake of 1900(?).
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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