Re: shucks, i'm all emotional.

Susan.E.Pearson-1 (susanp@ou.edu)
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 14:20:39 -0600

> 
> I know how you've felt, about wanting to keep Salinger from the world...it happens
> any time I take a literature class, and I have to listen to people talk nonsense
> about Emily Dickinson or Sylvia Plath or some other perfect writer...
> But I think you just gotta remember that these are not only vulnerable works but
> they are also STRONG works...


This reminds me of a course I took once (a seniou level college course,
mind you) in which we were talking about To the Lighthouse and she said
"But nothing happens." What can Virginia and I do but shake our heads?

Susan