Re: Seymour an Introduction

From: Paul Miller <phm@midsouth.rr.com>
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 10:10:35 EDT

Scottie wrote:
And for me at least
    it's the knowingness, the preening, the 'haven't-I-the-most-marvellous-
    verbal-facility' quality of that voice that puts the teeth on
edge............................

Yes that's what I always hated too. Are you saying that Joyce never
irritated the hell out of you because I can't say that? Faulkner called The
Sound and the Fury a brilliant failure. SaI may well be a failure at
whatever Salinger was trying to do, exactly what that was is the interesting
part.

Paul

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