Subject: god help me
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 22:49:35 GMT
greetings from an amateur chiropodist!! (i see you're looking at my feet)
i have been reading and re-reading salingers works for years, and all i'm
sure of is that i wish to hell that he'd publish something new. i mean, if
he's been writing this whole time, since 1965, he must be sitting on a damn
mountain of manuscripts. just how "vicious" is the publishing business?
maybe i don't want to know. and couldn't he be just as private if he
published every once in a while? i know that if he broke his silence now it
could start a damn three ring circus, but not being around at all can be
even more conspicuous than showing your (literary) face every now and then.
the celebrities that paparazzi aren't interested in photographing are the
ones that don't run from the cameras. i may be looking at this the wrong
way, but it seems like he's trying to reenter the womb of anonymity, and
that seems like a non-starter given the following he's created. he's like
the elvis of literature ("i saw jds in kalamazoo, and i'll tell ya, he's
still got it"). does he even approve of having a following? probably not.
does anyone have a copy of 22 stories that i could borrow? i'll give it
back, and i swear i won't photocopy the whole thing. i was trolling around
for a copy and saw it go on ebay for $380.00!!! is it really worth that
much? you could read all those stories in a library for free, right? of
course this is a country where a guy can play baseball for $25 million a
year, so what should i expect? i don't know. i'm just mad because i didn't
get it. ah, well, so it goes.
"i can't believe that we would lie in our graves"
andy stewart
imperial beach, ca
ps was dickie briganza the name of a character in "the talented mr ripley?"
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