Subject: French and TLM
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 21:01:15 EST
In French's book JDS Revisited he has a couple of pages on "The Laughing
Man". He doesn't mention that Mary Hudson is pregnant even though Salinger
almost knocks us over with this by having Mary sit between two baby
carriages and then the nine year old author bumps into a baby carriage while
walking backward,(and yes playing with a tangerine), looking at Mary and
wondering what is wrong with her. On my first reading of this I thought JDS
was quite obvious with the fact that she is pregnant. I guess not obvious
enough.
French also has the Laughing Man regurgitate the bullets into the Dufarges
thus killing them with the bullets. In the story the Dufarges witness him
raise his face and regurgitate the bullets and the impact of this feat on
the Dufarges was so acute that their hearts literally burst, and they
dropped dead at the Laughing Man's feet.
This isn't the first time a critic has not done a close reading and
probably won't be the last.
Oh well, enough ranting. : )
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From Paul, somewhere on the Paris-Chinese border.
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