holden/teddy/hot crowded cities.
helena (helenak@geocities.com)
Sat, 16 Aug 1997 01:24:10 +0100
> I must to agree with yours consistent arguments but you forgot the
> most important thing: Holden hates the religion concept and in
> special
> the christianism. Remenber when he meet a christian boy ( a tennis
> enthusiast) in the Woolbridge(?) College? That's the point!
as far as i remember the tennis boy was a *catholic*. which is a very
different thing from a christian. :)
holden doesn't hate all religion. he liked jesus. he just hated the
apostles.
regarding caul => caulfield, my english teacher always told us that
ackley was a derivative of acne.
i read teddy again a few days ago, to have a fresher view on this
discussion. that night, i had a nightmare that i was Mr. McArdle. i was
on an 84 bus heading south down nassau street, and i had this
irritating, precocious, unfeeling son, who kept repeating 'i may be just
an orange peel' over and over and over again, and i ended up screaming
'I'LL ORANGE PEEL *YOU*, YA LITTLE SHIT' at him. what is my subconcious
trying to tell me? any ideas?
i also read raise the high roofbeam again. i have never sympathised with
a character more. i reread it on an over-crowded train, in sweltering
august sun, wearing my gimpy officey job interview clothes (helena: the
corporate slave), and i was *SO* hot, and wanted air conditioning, and
just *wished* that buddy was there to invite me and the other sweaty,
grouchy people to his apartment....
but he wasn't.
good night. it's 1:23 am.
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:helena
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