Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:49:03 EST
Very, very observant :) I think Salinger just slipped up on his details. They're even sloppier with the Caulfield stories.
March in FL is like summer anywhere else...most days.
Jim
> Tim, in part, wrote:
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> "But where is his [Seymour's] diary on this trip? Why no mention in
> "Bananafish" of the poem written by him on the desk blotter?"
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> And I might add:
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> In _Zooey_ we learn that S. died on 3/18/48. _APDFBF_ was published on
> 1/31/48.
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> Muriel remarks, "This is the hottest day they've had in Florida in--" which
> sounds like _APDFBF_ takes place in the summer and not on 3/18/48.
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> Muriel remarks, "We couldn't get the room we had before the war." But we
> know from _RHTRBC_ that they eloped _during_ the war.
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> More problems with that German typewriter.
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> --Bruce
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