De Daumier-Smith question
Brian Fenton (fentonb@mathds1.maths.ul.ie)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:04:56 +0100 (WET DST)
well, I've just finished reading De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period and
I have a question I would like answered:
who is Peter Abelard?
I can't get a fix on what Salinger could mean here...
Could he mean:
(a) a James Bond type of smootherooney? (I love JB) or
(b) a loner like the biker in Raising Arizona who'll risk
life and limb (usually other people's) to get the girl or
(c) a Fun Bobby type of spit-shooter from Friends or
(d) a Jean-Claude Van Damme type of walnut-cracking-buttock-muscles
individual (not too dissimilar to your gentle writer, dear
readers) or
(e) a Marlon Brando in Last Tango In Paris sort of shorn fingernails
type or
(f) a Goldmund type who will be a smootherooney like (a) but will
do it German hence making it appear more meaningful and tragic.
This is actually meant as a serious question so I expect some
quality mastication-time spent on this.
You at the back! Take your hands out of your pockets!
the thick plottens,
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