"let there be glass!"

TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 07:39:59 -0700 (PDT)

]> 2)  If we view Buddy as a real person, writing
about the Glass family (which
> of course he isn't but Salinger wants us to so I'll
indulge him...) and he
> wrote "...Bananafish", how could he possibly have
known about what Seymour
> said on the beach and what else he did, when Buddy
himself obviously wasn't
> there (of course, one explanation is that other
characters from the story told
> him about Seymour's actions and words, but the way
the story is written it
> doesn't appear to be a second (or maybe third,
whatever) hand account)?  

maybe i'm misremembering, but i thought buddy
explained his writing of the story about seymour's
suicide, and how the seymour in that story isn't
really seymour, but buddy.
a lot of questions that get asked on this list are
actually answered or at least kinda vaguely in a
roundabout way discussed in Seymour: An Introduction.
i don't have time, and i don't have a copy of the
book so your on your own with the hundreds of other
listers for finding the seymour as buddy reference.

merry little lamb,
F. White A'Snow
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