Subject: Re: Smoking !
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 18:58:31 GMT
...Oh, and by the way, Jake, I'd be delighted to hear from Europeans about
their attitude to smoking imagery in JDS.
In fact, what I was trying to say is that we've struck a VERY rich vein for
potential discussion. (I wasn't really joking when I talked about the
"smoking canon"....) Since smoking is SO prevalent, it should be
fascinating to seek out subtle differences in Salinger's description of "the
act"--now, in North America, considered much more sinful than sex out of
wedlock.
(Purely on a sociological--or is it anthropological?--level, though, I've
noticed a marked decline in smoking, even in Europe. Nowhere near as many
people smoke in England today, for example, as I remember smoking when I was
a student in Britain--which was only shortly after Walter Raleigh brought
tobbaco back with him from Virginia Colonie.... Some of my best British
friends--many of them former smokers--are now anti-tobacco terrorists.... I
couldn't really care one way or the other, to tell you the truth. Although
I should say that there HAS been some sickly-sweet-smelling smoke escaping
from the doors and windows of Amsterdam coffee shops on recent trips. And
I've been trying to determine exactly what sort of smoke THAT is....)
Cheers, (anyone want to volunteer 2000 words on 'drinking' in Dasheill Hammett?)
Paul
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