Re: Conspiracy Theory
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:05:15 -0600 (MDT)
ahh emily, you ask about one of my very most favorite ways to unlock
catcher when you start talking "caul." It's almost too much for me
believe it or not to go into here since I swear I have angry little
chickadee writers whose work demands my attention by monday but let me at
least say this. After looking up the word and thinking about how it can
indeed be understood as an objective correlative for what I might (after a
sudden glass of wonderful wine, might) admit is holden's psyche. I don't
think there's a direct, A=A link in this point, but one of those slants or
angles that really seem to cut through so much of the whole text that I
know think of the catcher as a kind of caul of adolescence...
as for the crap about red and yellow, I wish your english teacher could
have said more memorable things about catcher than that...personally, I'd
like to break his kness but will gladly refrain from doing so upon your
say so.
I guess I'm stranger than I thought with my multiple catchers (ok helena,
send snail mail and I'll part with an american one--if you return a brit
one!) and lucky since I also have a pretty nice shelf of 9 stories,
including first eds of both hard and paper. Actually, I think 9 stories
is the easier one to give since more friends are looking for a good story
than they are a novel...plus I think it's my age to know more folks who
read catcher a long time ago and fogot how good salinger was and never got
to 9 stories (until meeting me, hehehe...)
will