Subject: Re: Rilke on fame
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 13:50:51 GMT
--- Paul Miller <phm@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> This from our friend Rainer may throw light on Salingers outlook on
> fame.
>
> ... Take another
> name, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And hide it
> from everyone.
I could read Rilke all day long. Yes, Paul, I think you're absolutely
right. Between Rilke Hero and his own experience with fame, is it any
wonder that our man in Cornish hasn't changed his mind?
No, I don't think that he owes anything to anyone. A person can either
safeguard the state of their soul or allow fame to take it away from
them. Because he's chosen the former rather than the latter, people
criticize him. However, if he'd gone the other route and became a
Capote-esque literary darling (and we know from Maynard's book that he
detests Capote), people would criticize, too. For the opposite reason.
If he'd gone any other way, I think the message would have been so
diluted that nobody would have bothered to pay attention.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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