Subject: Re: Maslow and nostalgia and C-----a, oh my (Yeesh.)
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2000 - 15:23:58 GMT
Jennifer Besiada quoted:
>Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday.
And I thought to myself, now there's a line that old Zooey could have
uttered. (This is just an aside. No real content to this one.)
>I wish to be in complete agreement with Cecilia,
I really like it when folks agree with me. But I'd like to make a point to
this:
>I believe it is very
>characteristic of my kind to not only revisit our past nostalgically
>(sporting thick wallets packed with evidence of yesterday and never letting
>a single photo fade) but to mentally visit non-existent times and places
>through contrived memories as well. Same need.
Ah, I have an apartment full of furniture that belonged to dead relatives.
I can sit at my grandmother's dining room table and remember dinners where
half the people in attendance (including Grandma) are now dead.
Nostalgia is not a bad thing. You're only looking back on what was
important yesterday and finding that it's still important today.
It's not a bad thing.
Letting yesterday take over today is a little different. Tim's
"faux-nostalgia" doesn't always fall in that category, but it's just as
dangerous as real nostalgia. When you're so focused on times gone by,
regardless of whether you experienced them firsthand or not, I'd say that
there's a reason for it.
And to bring our buddy Salinger back into it, what the heck *is* Zooey's
deal? Why can't he stand to have a conversation with anyone? Why is
everyone an idiot? Because they can't compare to S.? Is it nostalgia?
Nothing else in the now can compare to the yesterday with his missing
brother? What do you think?
Regards,
Cecilia.
(I didn't even need an ObSal for this one. Ties in neatly, don't you
think?)
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