Re: letter to list
Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 01:35:31 -0700 (PDT)
Me worried? Are you kidding, The Laughing Man is my favorite name in the
whole wide world.
In an Aspects of the Novel/E.M. Forster kind of way, the Laughing Man may
not be the roundest of characters in the Salinger Kingdom of Narnia, but I
really did relate to the coach/storyteller when I fist read it. Having the
awful habit of lending away all the copies of my favorite books [the
stupidest thing to do, according to a close friend of mine: either they
don’t like (“understand”) it, which is sad, or they love it, and then you
never get the book back – the latter is true for the most part, as far as my
salinger-books are concerned], I haven’t read it in a while. But the image
of the coach sitting in the bus, telling about the mysterious thief crossing
the French-Chinese boarder, his hideous laughter roaming the countryside,
has never really left me.
Camille gave you the honorary title, “ Paul - The Davega bicycle giver whose
name I can't remember.”, so I won’t even try to claim that. In my own mind,
I’d like to be Zooey telling Franny about his Ginger Ale-meeting with Jesus,
but you can’t have it all.
I’m honored.
/TLM
>From: kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul Kennedy)
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: letter to list
>Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 18:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I believe, by the way, that The Laughing Man has named himself
>appropriately....
>
>(which is also a compliment, if anybody's worried about that sort of
>thing....)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul
>
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