> > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 01:39:59 -0500 > From: Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> > To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu > Subject: Re: Pretty mouth and green my eyes... > Message-ID: <v03110701b0b68b973ba0@roughdraft.org> > > > I read Zen... a long time ago, thinking in some way that it might be a > book in which I'd find Salinger-ish echos, but I didn't find that. I > liked what I found, but it wasn't along the lines of Salinger. > Actually, I agree with you here. I see similarities between Moon Palace and CITR, and between Moon Palace and Zen and the Art.. but not between CITR and Zen and.. I read Zen and the Art a long time ago and remember enjoying it, but unlike Salinger books and Moon Palace (and others), it's not been a book I've gone back to reread. But I do remember seeing similarities in Moon Palace in the cross-country quest and in the ambiguous father figure. > Moon Palace, on the other hand, I love. It's so haunting, and the delicate > overlaps in the narrative, and the general state of Marco are endearing and > frightening. Holden shows some of that, but in the end, if he had to, he > could just go home, albeit to face the music from his parents. Marco in > Moon Palace had nothing except his books, and as they dwindled, so did he > and his connection to the (rational) world. > How true. It's a slow descent that's both frightening and incredibly fascinating at the same time. - Rebecca