Subject: Re: 2 Q's
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 00:08:12 EST
But aren't there strange things, like the girl who works at the medical truss shop in De Daumier Smith, the girl in The Laughing Man who threw her cigarette lighter at a porpoise, the Shirley Beans record, the Davega bicycle even, which seem to give some sort of enlightenment or joy without you even realising it? There are elements of Salinger stories that seem so unconnected to every other element in them that they seem to me to repel reasoning and evoke (in me at least) this sort of warm glow of candid, spontaneous, totally ineffable identification. Even Esme's broken watch, laden with all its symbolism, speaks more eloquently when accepted with the same lack of guile that Sergeant X accepted it.
--- Louise Z. Brooks "Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy WonkaOn Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:36:55 AntiUtopia wrote: >In a message dated 2/24/00 7:41:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, >invertedforest@angelfire.com writes: > ><< However, who hasn't come away from some elements of a Salinger story at >some point without a big rosy smile on their faces without the slightest clue >why? > > --- > Louise Z. Brooks >> > >yeah, but eventually I usually figure out what was going on, and that leads >to an separate but related pleasure.... > >so I don't completely buy into this :) > >Jim >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >
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