Re: bath night
Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
If I ever forget to say it when I’m having my arguments/discussions/rantings
with you (I can feel them coming as I write), you really do write
beautifully.
/TLM
>From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: bath night
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:58:26 +0100
>
>
> Many features in Salinger announce the advanced
> obsessional neurotic: the endlessly self-modifying
> phrases & sentences; the lists of objects slavered over
> like a miser over his hoarded faeces; the Zen-impregnated
> demand for renunciation & control; the shuddering
> away from dirt; the squeamish avoidance of the flesh
> & all its joys ...
>
> I could go on all day.
>
> In view of this, the bathroom is his natural temple:
> the one room in the house where the primal golden filth
> can be celebrated in secret & washed away in solemn ritual.
>
> And of course if I were a Jungian I could also point out
> the individuating roundness of the mandala-bidet,
> the Shadow left as a rim round the bath like the skin
> shed by the enantiodromically self-consuming serpent.
>
> I'm surprised, in a way, he ever gets out of the bath.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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