Re: what, exactly...?
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:41:23 -0800 (PST)
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> 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
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
Camille I definitely agree. I just can not wait until Christmas is
over. Also Christmas is a time when many people feel lonely and
depressed, as Holden did throughout the novel.
-Liz Friedman
>
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