Subject: Re: A fissshier lissst
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 22:08:21 GMT
Matt wrote-
"Please, everyone, for the last time: we're not people; we're Salinger
fans. And this is not a social space for goofing off--it's meant
strictly for the discussion of J.D. Salinger. I'm afraid minor veiled
references to Salinger subject matter tucked away in titles just won't
do anymore.
I know in the past we've ignored digressions in the spirit of getting
along, and of course it's always acceptable for the truly delicate and
sensitive among us--those who really *get* JDS, those who really
understand and connect with, say, Holden--to cry out in
not-strictly-Salinger-related anguish (provided the prose is a limping
immitation (sic) of Buddy Glass), but things have gotten out of hand here."
I'm almost falling all over myself hoping that the last bit is, at least in
part, about me. I've never had anyone compare my writing to that of Buddy
before, so, if so, this is a big moment in my life. I'm Moving Up!!!! Alas,
it may not be so as I wasn't crying out, not in anguish anyway, but I can
see how one may have interpreted it so. Let me know if and when I graduate
to "stumbling imitation." I await the day with poise and trepidation.
andy
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