a confused response to a bunch of posts
Cheryl Cline (ccline@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 22:41:48 -0700
I don't think Emily Dickinson was even close to being ashamed. I think
she wanted to avoid getting her shoe stuck in an "admiring bog".
Aw, hell...I knew I should have gotten the hell off this list before I
found out that Salinger was Humbert Humbert. But about this Maynard
thing...it seems we're selectively believing what she says. We don't
believe the pizza thing, but we enthusiastically dig the two hidden
novels idea... However, I'll have to agree with the novels thing. I
think that Salinger merely stopped publishing, not writing. I think he
was just sick and tired of his own admiring bog.
Yeah, why didn't he just get a pen name? Or is Salinger his pen name?
Never mind. I guess he just didn't expect a frenzy when he published
Catcher, and after that it would have been too late to camouflauge any
of the other stories with a pen name.
Cheryl