Subject: Re: way of a pilgrim
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 07:13:51 EST
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:44:30 -0500 Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org>
wrote:
> This got me started digging with an ANACHRONISM ALERT. If Seymour
> and Buddy had the book in their room, and if we know Seymour "opted"
> not to live in 1948, then the book needed to be at least pre-1948, if
> not much earlier.
>
> Most of the older citations I was able to find were dated 1950. I
> did find a British edition in the UCal library catalog dated 1930,
> but it was only the first book, not the sequel. Has anyone come upon
> a suitably old copy of the pair of books that would be old enough
> that they could have been in Seymour's and Buddy's room in the Glass
> apartment; that would have been around before Seymour's suicide; and
> that appear in distinct volumes, rather than as a pair bound into one
> volume?
>
> I confess that this is silly, in a sense -- nobody's expecting that
> Salinger's going to have just the right edition with just the right
> date, but it sounds enough to get my puzzle-solving mind rattling.
>
> --tim
> -
I know it never says so in either story, but isn't it possible that
they had the Russian version? Buddy does say that they've all got an
inordinate talent for languages. This is, of course, really speculating
to the extreme, but reading it in the original would not be out of
character for Seymour, at least.
love, Lucy-Ruth
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