Subject: Re: Inception Seymour
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 17:36:37 EST
I agree. What a dreadful shame - though it's hard to feel too upset with it when you contemplate how delicious that initial setting is, with Muriel chatting to her mother, it could not be doubted that the story would have had far more clean, clear, stark impact had that section all been done away with. Apart from anything, I've always had a liking for characters like Jane Gallager who are only glimpsed between the venetian blinds of the actual words. How intriguing a character Muriel would be if she were a true Jane Gallager, and how repugnant would have been an editor-enforced meeting between Jane and Holden where kisses and vows and complete explications of their situations delivered!
P.S. In case I don't get the chance elsewhere, thank you from various warm welcomes collected throughtout my morning's reading of the weekend's posts ;)
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:18:20 Paul Miller wrote: >Paul-- > >Your source for this interesting bit about Bananafish revisions? > >Matt Kozusko------------------------------------------------- > > >About Town : The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagoda. I don't >have a page number handy, but there is a good index in the back. >Also in this book is the fact that the fiction editors of the New Yorker all >rejected the story Zooey when Salinger submitted it. It took Mr. Shawn to >get it published, with SaI later having to get published the same way. > >Paul > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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