Subject: Re: Salinger and Melville
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 08:36:32 EST
At 9:10 PM -0600 on 2/6/2000, you wrote:
> I found the below on this web page about Salinger
> http://www.fringeware.com/subcult/J_D_Salinger.html
>
> "Salinger begins to cultivate an attitude of silence. But spends some time
> in Greenwich Village, going to clubs, playing poker. Remembered to have
> arrogantly claimed that there weren't any decent writers after Herman
> Melville, excepting himself."
>
> Interesting in light of the recent discussion of "Moby Dick".
>
> My question is: Did Salinger really say this?
I don't know for sure, but it sounds like one of A.E. Hotchner's
anecdotes. From Choice People.
--tim
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