(Fwd) Re: (Fwd) kerouac and seymour glass?

randy royal (randyr@southeast.net)
Sun, 03 Aug 1997 00:11:33 +0000

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Date:          Sat, 2 Aug 1997 19:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
To:            randyr@southeast.net
From:          "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@hsc.usc.edu>
Subject:       Re: (Fwd) kerouac and seymour glass?
Cc:            beat-l@cunyvm.cuny.edu

Kerouac dropped em like bombs.

Kewl cwote.

I think (but am not sure at all) that Seymour Wyse was in the publishing biz
in NY or a writer.  I have heard the name.  Maybe he wrote about Jazz.

At 03:56 PM 8/2/97 +0000, you 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
>Reply-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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