RE: antiquarian


Subject: RE: antiquarian
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 06:22:55 GMT


Aren't even you being too cynical for your age when you agree with the
point of view that, if one is very sentimental, one is a communist?
Or maybe i don't understand the 'crypto' in crypto-communist

-----Original Message-----
From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:03 AM
To: "Bananafish" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: antiquarian

    On the local Irish radio here the other day I listened to
    a not-very-well-informed discussion marking the anniversary
    of the Catcher.

    But one of the speakers was making great play of
    of the 'subversiveness' with which the book was tarred
    when it came out - during the Red scares of McCarthy
    & so on. Many of his fellow countrymen, apparently,
    labeled Holden a crypto-commie.

    This is understandable in the light of his sentimental
    feeling for all the underdogs of the world. But in other
    ways - his terrible fastidiousness, his scepticism about human
    perfectibility, his weakness for lost causes, his fundamental
    pessimism - he sounds like a dyed in the wool conservative.

    Which prompts my question: did Holden read any history?

    And what about his grandchildren? Many of you have
    strong feelings about politics. They say even professional
    politicians nowadays know no history.
    
    Do YOU read any history?

    Scottie B.

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