Subject: Re: Smoking !
From: nick flynn (nicholas.flynn1@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 08:46:05 GMT
on 9/12/00 1:30 pm, Scottie Bowman at rbowman@indigo.ie wrote:
(Tabacco)
> used to be a very useful device for this purpose:
Obviously Scottie has hit the nail on the head here, but there is another
side to this I suspect - ie - Salinger's charecters are usually a little on
the edge, and what better means are there, to express that state, than heavy
smokin g. There is drink of course, (and it is used to great effect in
"Raise High -") but it doesn't normaly lend itself to lucidity, and lucidity
is after all what the great man is all about.
As regards Tim's "reservations" about smoking, two quotations come to mind
- the first is by Pierre Auguste Renoir who was advising his son Jean about
life - it goes:
"Never trust a man who doesn't smoke - he has some secret vice".
The other one is from a 1927 film by Laurel and Hardy called - "The
Second Hundred Years". The title cards were written by H.M. Walker (an ex
sports writer, and one of the best card writers in the buisness), it goes:
(Card one) -
"The Governer - Doesn't smoke, chew, drink or swear - - "
(Card two) -
"The Warden - He's no good, either - - - "
All the best (from a blissfull cloud of tabacco smoke),
Nick.
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