Re: what, exactly...?
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:53:08 +1100
JJR wrote:
> <<Holden address those readers that "want to know the truth">>
>
> I saw him as using an expression, "well, if you Really want to know about
> it..."
The thing I love about that opening and the reason I think everyone is
instantly engaged by the book from there on is the way it instantly
implicates the reader: `I guess I do want to know about it. Yeah, well this
kid said I did so ... talk away!' (:
How's Christmas treating yall anyway? I always think of TCIR as a
`Christmas' novel (`Hold the sonuvabitch up! Hold it up there!' (: ). When
you think about it, it's a perfect time to set it, when you think of
Christmas as the ultimate season having been reclaimed by the phonies -
turning one of the greatest events of the Christian calendar into a junk
mail free-for-all. You could go into all the wider religious implications
for this ... but hey, it's Christmas (:
Camille
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