Re: Salinger and Lit Theory
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Fri, 05 Dec 1997 16:27:01 -0800
AntiUtopia wrote:
> There's just no getting away from the questions asked and the answers explored
> whenever we read and interpret a work, then try to communicate that experience
> to others. That's what English majors do. Everyone who posts to this list is
> a literary critic, like it or not :)
Last night I kept thinking about (was it Lagusta's?) comments about how sometimes
she just deletes all the Bananafish posts because it's too personal for her that
day, as well as Tim's comments about how sometimes the stories are just there to
sigh for, and I wondered if my approach to this list, no matter how well
intentioned, wasn't quite as "gentle" as what everyone else dreams it would be. I
keep forgetting that I didn't have email when I was discovering JDS when I was
growing up therefore my admiration of his work was silenced for many years before
I discovered this list. I wonder if "I" would have deleted all the posts some days
just because it was too personal for me during those times. Of course, since I'm
on the list I guess I include myself in what I dream the list to be as well, yada
yada yada.
Malcs