Subject: Re: Top Three
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 15:58:27 EST
Why not?
1. Teddy
2. The Inverted Forest
3. Seymour: An Introduction
...andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Yes I have to put Teddy up there with my top favorites, it's getting crowded
up there.
Until recently I disliked Teddy so much that I wished it wasn't in Nine
Stories. Upon further reading in "Teddy" I discovered he really was not a
brat like I earlier had judged him to be. In fact I found him to be quite
considerate of people.
The ideas about reality that Salinger has coming out of Teddy's mouth I had
thought to be an evasion of reality. Really what he is discussing, alot of
it anyway, has to do with the new physics of the twentieth century. So what
we think we see with our eyes everyday is in some ways more illusory than
what Teddy is speaking of which is fundamental reality.
Before Teddy goes up on deck when he is coming to the end of the passageway,
there above the staircase landing is a mural of Saint George and the Dragon.
Salinger is saying something here, but what? End of passageway in this life
and then he sees Saint George slaying the dragon, what meaning please?
Paul
I may be an orange peel.
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