Antw: Happy 2000's
Jente Algoed (jente.algoed@planetinternet.be)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:51:27 -0500
fellow bananafishers
it is now 23,50 pm
i have put my two speakers at my window, prince's 1999 ready to funk this
world into the next millenium
happy 2000 yall
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>Van: Sundeep Dougal <holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
>Aan: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Onderwerp: Happy 2000's
>Datum: vri, 31 dec 1999 17:28
>
>Since in these parts it's been Y2K for some hours now, and because my
>computer hasn't spontaneously combusted, here's adding to the usual best
>wishes to all and birthday greetings to old JDS as well.
>
>Sean it was, I think, who said something about JDS and the puritanical
>attitude towards sexuality in his work. I think Holden is only concerned
>about 'stopping when asked to stop' or words to that effect, and about
>"responsibility", but otherwise is quite comfortable with his sexuality and
>other such. His being "seductive as hell" and ruing over how it took him an
>hour to get a brassiere off once and how the parents get back home early and
>so on almost always kills me, if I allow myself to lapse into his
>vernacular. The prudes and the puritans had quite a lot of trouble in that
>day and age, from all the available material, and apparently still do. That
>by and large, by later or today's permissive standards when nothing really
>seems scandolous or shocking, short of anything non-consensual or below a
>certain age, is a different matter altogether, but in my book, that is not
>phony -- and I am sure this is not just a cultural thing, Holden _is_ as Tim
>said the "good" guy and I'd reckon that even today the concerns for a
>general adolescent would still be the same.
>
>I don't know where I am going with this one, and I do not have Sean's
>message in front of me, but I read something today which perhaps reminded me
>of that message, in a tangential sort of way:
>
><quote>
>Professional Relationship of the Year
>
>'There was an atmosphere poised nicely between a seance and
>a chess game and the purest flirtation, of the sort you have with
>a beloved character in a book, with no question of the vulgar
>imposition of the physical.'
>
>Candia McWilliam, describing her working relationship with Stanley
> Kubrick in The Guardian
>
><unquote>
>
>But then I guess one could read the "physical" above in more ways than one
>too.
>
>Anyway, Happy 2000's all.
>
>Sonny
>finally going away for the weekend.
>
>