Re: Conspiracy Theory
Brett Alar conway (bconway@suny.multi.co.kr)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:30:16 +0900 (KST)
Dear all,
A friend of mine has a first edition of the paperback catcher.
It has a very tacky cover: holden, wearing his "human" hunting hat
backwards, is carrying two suitcases into, maybe, grand central station.
It's very very ugly.
Brett.
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> 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
>