Re: Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts

Subject: Re: Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 02:56:00 EST

Whoa! Think I could be drowning here. I think I better either accept the cool lima bean being offered me by Matthew Salinger or throw a tow-line to the S.S. Scottie Bowman before I sink ;)

On another matter, I am absolutely delighted to hear about the Kenneth Branagh Love's Labors Lost - I was only the other day saying to someone that I wondered what had become of it.

bye for now, 

---
Louise Z. Brooks
"Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:17:41   Matt Kozusko wrote:
>
>I don't find it helpful to look at "Bananafish" as an evacuated idea
>strung with literary devices like so many glowing plastic chili peppers
>on a bald Christmas tree.  Sounds too much like a separation of form and
>content.  Indeed, all of JDS's dead poet stories are shot through with
>the platonic form of death-of-a-genius-seer, but the fact is, in each
>case, the literary devices are exactly what distinguishes one from
>another.  The "idea" of "Bananafish" and the story itself are two
>entirely different things.  So which are we looking at--firewood, or a
>Christmas tree?  
>
>As I said, the list of reasonable interpretations shrinks the more one
>knows about Salinger and the Glass family.  It is the virgin reader who
>is confronted with the richest collection of interpretive choices.
>
>And now, Louise Z., lest the list welcoming committee seem too frigid, I
>offer this, by way of atonement:  Branagh's adaption of _Love's Labor's_
>opened in Germany a few days ago to rabid enthusiasm and the finest of
>early reviews.
>
>Glass family deaths come not upon thee, 
>
>-- 
>Matt Kozusko       mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
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