More Notes FROm the Underground

>I would like to pose a question to the list:
>The atmosphere on this list is much different than on most other lists I am
>on
>or have been on in that the content is not purely restricted to JD and his
>works. Why exactly is this? Is it because we just generally have a casual
>atmosphere (which I think is true)? Or is it that in our affection for
>what
>JD has written we are somehow tied together on an emotional level or we are
>linked in a deeper way than simply our love for CITR or Franny for
>instance?
>Anyway.
>

Dear Mr. Stonewash,

Here ye, Here ye. The times on this list they are a-changin. Gone are the
fanciful days of discussing the merits of psychoanalytic theory in modern
fiction. Say farewell to the bygone days of banter around the importance of
feet in JD Salinger's works.
Save the time when yours truly likened a feminist critic of Papa to a
chancre.

Though we're undoubtedly still in the Iron Age, Levi-san, the time has come
for a kinder, gentler Gedsudski. This is due in part to the cumulative
effects of the ether on my battered noodle, certainly.
Know now, however, I will pounce on any indication Mr. Preacher has decided
to push his malarkey on the general public. I've seen too many young minds
jaded by the promise of his golden calf, and for that I'm as mad as Hell and
am not going to take it anymore. There will be no insults (like, for
instance, me calling him a fat-assed phony) just some short threads about,
say, why Salinger has The Glass family living on the fifth floor and also
has Seymour blow his addled brains to bits on another fifth floor.
Coincidence? Or how about why he is concerned with his feet, those very same
Bessie covered in many socks and The Harlot stepped on. Buddy saying he is a
chiropodist, Sgt. X seeing a picture of feet , oh, and The Man Without a
Name in DDSBP considering lying and telling his colleague he has a foot
disease. There are many more, but just some interesting themes B-Fish
posters have harped on and some I plan to follow-up on.

Never more, will we say "I saw them [JimmyEat World] in concert they are
awesome"

"I've got plenty of nothing,
and thats good enough for me..."

Have I mentioned how I weep for the future?

The only thing that keep the bulk of the posters on this list tied together
is a chronic feeling of quiet desperation.

p.s. I wrote this message while intoxicated, but you won't find me misusing
'though' with 'tough' I have too much respect for the written world and too
little for my liver.

Yours,

John Gedsudski
Adjunct Professor Of Smatter
Philistia Community College
507 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

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Received on Thu Dec 12 20:44:43 2002