Re: Salinger's world

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:57:57 +0100 

    '... we need to discuss art, spirituality and the problems 
    of conformity (and phoniness) ...'

    Absolutely.  But context also matters.  Salinger's 
    characters - at least in the later stories, which are 
    the ones I find especially unpersuasive - are as likely 
    to become hysterical over the spriritual implications 
    of monogrammed luggage as over their own eventual
    dissolution.

    They remind me of that mythical bird that flies 
    round & round in ever decreasing circles until it
    disappears up its own etc.

    Scottie B.