Subject: Re: salinger salinger everywhere
From: Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 23:24:51 EST
so im wondering how many people today get exposed to it..any of you
>other high school students on the list, is it a part of the curriculum??
>just
>wondering....but yep..thats all...so ciao!
>~Meredith
At our school the freshman read Catcher, and about half of the Soph. English
teachers teach Franny and Zooey. On another related note, today was a very
Salinger day for me. In Physics class I got in trouble for reading Nine
Stories (to add onto the Eskimo thread, once I get a chance), and I was just
thinking about all the books today. So beyond that, I was sitting in the
Senior lounge, in a very introspective mood, not really in the mood to talk
to anyone about the things they were talking about, and something happened.
I was sitting by this door and on the other side is a section of the
teachers lounge. I could hear people in there. Talking, or using the
microwave, but not really, just barely. Suddenly I realized that there were
people on the other side of that wall living their lives entirely separate
from mine. It was something I knew, but somehow it brought such closure to
the recent "Everyone is a Nun" thread. After that, I went up stairs, and sat
outside my Calc. classroom for about twenty minutes until class started. It
seemed the best place to be, since nobody was around but an occasional
passerby. I was sitting there with an orange, thinking about peeling and
eating it, but everytime I started, I couldn't. It just seemed so beautiful,
sitting there in front of me. I knew that once its peel was off it would
loose that beauty, but I also knew there was an internal beauty (to be
gained by eating it) that I couldn't get unless I removed the peel. So I
did. And the truth is it wasn't the best orange. It was kind of bad, to be
honest. But I think it's sort of a life lesson, that we have to take chances
and risk ruining things before we can find the one thing that really makes
us happy. I bet this makes no sense. It just seemed a bit Salingeresque
sitting there. Of course there is the orange peel reference (Teddy) that I
would like to talk about, but not now. And there is also my favorite thing
ever, from Franny and Zooey when Les Glass asks if Bessie thinks Franny
would like a tangerine, and what a tangerine represents. (That is where I
got my email address). That is altogether another subject, though.
Catherine
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