Subject: Re: How many children had Lady Macbeth?
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 14:51:00 EST
Matt wrote:
>...The 1953-on Seymour, it might be, since "Teddy" effectively
>signifies the demise of the original understanding of Seymour's
>Florida frolick. I wonder, then--though such speculation would have
>L.C. Knights absolutely convulsing in his grave--whether any of the
>details in "Bfish" are at all "accurate"? Perhaps Buddy made the
>whole thing up. Perhaps everything after the phone call (one bullet
>excepted) is imaginative speculation. Once authorship switches from
>JDS to Buddy and see more becomes Seymour, the events of "Bananafish"
>become purely fictional.
Okay, '53-on, if you mean Seymour still existed in JDS's mind as a
character he was recreating in this vaudeville show know as The Glass
Family. (I still subscribe to the full-of-holes theory that when he was
writing _Franny_ the Glasses didn't exist in full. I posit on a brisk
spring day in 1955, whilst strolling his hilltop acres for gophers, our
author, possibly wearing a hunting hat, was felled by an off-course literary
satori of a Family of Nine. He all but crawled back to his writing hut, all
the while forgetting to repeat his guru's mantra.)
Never having had a drink with Mr. Knights, I leave him rotting in his grave.
Yes, I tend to agree Buddy/JDS made the whole thing up, never thinking this
S.G. would make it past the last page of _Nine Stories_, and have some of
the less savory details/atmospherics come back and haunt him when he rang in
the new Saint Seymour in RHTRBC.
--Bruce
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