Re: new to the list

rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:26:28 -0500

>not alot of people my age(17) seem to be interested in any 
>literature except modern pop novels (john grisham, stephen king, etc..) or 
>magazines..

I know, I saw all these kids at school today reading "Newsweek" and I was
just like "Ugh!!! NEWSWEEK??? Puh-LEEZE!"

>but I will start off my time on this list by asking a pretty simple question 
>about _Catcher in the Rye_:  Is Holden Caulfield's vernacular reflective of 
>the way the author talks or is it more representative of all prep school 
>teenagers in the 1940s?

well if I'm not mistaken Holden's prep school experience is very loosely
autobiographical, so though Salinger might not speak that way anymore, maybe
he did at a point in his young life (or he just copied the way the people
around him talked, though if you spend time with people who talk one way
eventually you'll start to pick up some of it...)

but I'm dealing with things I think I probably might have read, so...

>anyway, Ive 
>unconciously taken in a lot of Caulfield's phrases and used them in everyday 
>life.. I hope this doesn't make me a phony.

well, it does...