Re: Holden's Vernacular & Salinger in a bathrobe
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:02:28 -0800 (PST)
--- Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu> wrote:
...article on Salinger,
> the one showing him, through the slats of his fence,
> walking in his
> bathrobe?
Hah! Two great common denominators of humanity -
bathrobes and kazoos. When you're caught in your
bathrobe, you're woozy, sleepy and enjoying your
privacy at home, or in your yard behind the slat
fence. It's a comfort garment. Storyteller Jean
Shepard used to write about his mother in her chenille
bathrobe. The worst person, I mean someone like Idi
Amine would look harmless in an ankle length
terrycloth - show the guy in a bathrobe and he looks
like someone's overweight uncle who enjoys fried food
and has to go out and get a haircut on Saturday.
Kazoos???? If we just got tens of millions of people
worldwide to form a titanic kazoo chorus to play a
whole bunch of national anthems (some kind of medly
probably) via satellite hookup, every body would
forget about nation states and borders and glory etc.
they'd be too busy laughing....
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