(Fwd) Re: (Fwd) kerouac and seymour glass?
randy royal (randyr@southeast.net)
Sun, 03 Aug 1997 00:09:24 +0000
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Reply-to: Rob Holton <rholton@OKANAGAN.NET>
From: Rob Holton <rholton@OKANAGAN.NET>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) kerouac and seymour glass?
To: BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Seymour Wyse was someone Kerouac went to Horace Mann prep school
with before Columbia. He is the one who introduced him to more serious
jazz (in Harlem) than K had listened to before.
Rob Holton
randy royal wrote:
> hey, i found this message on the bannafish list (the one about
> salinger) thought maybe someone over here who has read Satori in
> paris could help. if so, i will forward it to the bannafish list.
> thanx~randy
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> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:10:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Lagusta P. Yearwood" <ly001f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
> Subject: kerouac and seymour glass?
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
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>
> hi bananafishers!
>
> i was reading some kerouac and came across an interesting reference
> that i
> was wondering if anyone here could explain. in _satori in paris__ (a
> pretty fine novella, by the way, like on the road but with neat french
>
> scattered throughout and more overt zen themes) he mentions seymour
> glass!
> maybe everyone but me knows that kerouac read salinger, maybe it's
> another
> seymour, maybe it's something else entirely, but all i know is that
> _satori in paris__ was first published in 1966, which would give old
> jack
> time enough to read some seymour-mentioning salinger. does anyone have
>
> facts about this?
>
> here's the quote (pg 96 of the grove press edition) describing someone
> he
> meets in paris:
>
> "At first I wonder 'is he Jewish?'...because something about him looks
>
> Jewish at first...his foppish delightful airs, his Watteau
> fragrance, his Spinoza eye, his Seymour Glass (or Seymour Wyse)
> elegance..."
>
> i don't know who seymour wyse is, i kind of doubt he means our
> seymour,
> and this is really puzzing me!
>
> thanks,
>
> lagusta
>
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