Re: Salinger & Burns (NOT George!)actually not, but Gatsby

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In a message dated 17/12/99 7:40:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca writes:

> While walking to the subway this morning, and musing over the fact that Guy
>  Lombardo's heirs stand to make millions in the not-too-distant furture, I
>  confronted another possible link between OUR man (JDS) and Robt. Burns:
>  
>  Compare,
>   
>              Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
>              And ne'er brought tae mind,
>              Should ault acquaintance be forgot,
>              And days of auld lang syne.
>  
>  
>  with,
>  
>             Don't tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start
>              missing everybody.
>  
>  Anybody else notice a similarity?
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Paul
>  
>  
Hadn't noticed a similarity before. But, speaking of similiarites, I came 
across another yesterday, in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, near the end: "I 
went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On 
the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, 
sottod out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe 
raspingly along the stone." Pretty vague, perhaps. Is this action present 
anywhere else? 
    I thought Gatsby was good, but I don't think I'd call it the "Great 
American Novel." Anybody care to explain why it's so well thought of? 

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