Re: BAND OF SALINGER'S SOLDIERS
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 20:34:46 -0800
> somebody wax mature and make a good point, not on behalf of the moron,
> but just to sort of invoke reality; to distill the worry.
>
> if not, let's talk about a way to take this guy out.
I have no desire to speak in defense of the project, but it's a "book" that
doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon. (Would you pay for such a
text? Can you imagine a publisher laying out an advance for this?) To
make a stink about it would lend it more credibility than it presently has.
Just let it be. It will croak on its own.
A friend of mine was on the receiving end of something similar. He
published a popular book with his email address in it, and since his
specialty is a very specific type of science, he found himself getting
inundated with email of the level of messages we just saw: kids doing book
reports, students who didn't want to go to the library, people who wanted
to touch for the sake of touching.
For a long time it was a drain on his professional and personal life, until
he made a decision: Ignore it all. And now he does. And his life is a lot
better for it.
The point is that while the fellow putting this together may think it a
worthwhile project, the content speaks for itself. I strongly doubt that
Our Old Man of the Mountain is going to be interrupted by it, or that
agents will be killing each other to peddle it.
For anybody who thinks that Salinger readers on the Internet are a bunch of
nitwits (or insert your favorite derogatory term here), there are the web
pages for this list and there is the excellent Stephen Foskett page, all of
which say more than any "fighting words" could say.
--tim