Re: Salinger & Burns (NOT George!)actually not, but Gatsby
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:34:59 -0500 (EST)
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>Now, given that I have neither book at hand, I may need someone to step
>in and lend assistance. 8-)
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>--tim
>
I think you did just FINE!
Far be it from a Canadian to venture onto the muddy waters of the mighty
Mississippi, but there's something almost transcendentally American (if
Emerson, and Thoreau, and Hawthorne and Alcott will allow me to borrow the
term...) about the image of a white boy and a black man floating as
fugitives down the river that runs through the heart of the country....
Beautiful Innocence... Ugly Experience.... Metaphorically meaningful
geography.
(Aside from which, HUCKLEBERRY FINN--not unlike The CATCHER in the RYE--is
very frequently the target of fundamentalist book burners-and-banners up
here north of the 49th, which is reason enough to read it, as far as I'm
concerned.)
Cheers,
Paul