------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- 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 >------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >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 > > >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 > >************************************************************************** >i know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and >who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. it's >like...you're just eating misery. you're eating a bitter life. > ~~alice walker >************************************************************************** > >