Re: greetings! -Reply
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:11:20 +1000
> I don't know if being a participant of the list predetermines my
comments
> as hypocritical, but I would be extraordinarily content if the man
remained
> as enigmatic( if not more so), as "reclusive", and as
> under-main-streamed as he is now.
> I think that perhaps many readers enjoy that part of his character.
It's funny ... you know I think if Salinger put out a book revealing all
the mysteries of all his books ... `yes Franny was pregnant, Seymour shot
himself because of ...' ... we'd all be bitterly disappointed. Likewise,
the revelation Joyce Maynard has handed down to us the information that
Salinger himself is a fairly eccentric but mostly normal guy is something
which I think has effected a lot of us in different ways, all of which have
been very interesting to observe. It's like being told Jesus Christ's
favourite food was cow's milk flavoured with cloves. It's not a bad thing
or a good thing or an anything thing really, but someone has just come and
put a big fat thumbprint in our pleasantly formless lump of clay that we
can never really mould over again.
Camille
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