Response to Scottie's letter to Jocelyn
Jonathan Moritz (Jonathan.Moritz@utas.edu.au)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:47:41 +1000
Whoa there Scottie, with talk like that, you'll have us all feeling like
Zooey when he says "I feel like those dismal bastards Seymour's beloved
Chuang-tzu warned everybody against. 'Beware when the so-called sagely men
come limping into sight.'"
I love the limping expression, it again reminds me of that wonderful
article titled "Salinger's Feat" (by John Russell, Modern Fiction Studies
XII (3), 299-312), which simply, quite wonderfully, draws attention to how
often Salinger refers to feet, ankles, and balance as indicators of
people's emotional balance and how they naturally connect to the earth and
wider world.