Subject: Re: An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back at Life
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 04:17:21 GMT
Cecilia, I was not yet 20 when this article. I didn't like it when it
came out (though I might have had a momentary crush on those big eyes
of Maynard's). I don't think Maynard spoke for me and most of my
friends. We were experimenting with drugs, rock and roll, politics
and each other, and I remember dissing authority every chance we got.
We knew people from different races and places, and we traveled and
we were not very interested in making our careers work. Maynard was
living in an upper class dream world then and it pissed me off that
the NYTimes bought her story and sold it as a generational statement.
Hah! Can you imagine someone really getting away with "I never
imagined Jackie Kennedy going to the bathroom"? We were all about
imagining how to make the sacred profane, and how to see what really
matters through our own eyes...and yes, reading Eliade, Tolkein,
Ginsburg and even Salinger fueled our revolution. But I don't blame
Salinger for looking into Maynard's eyes and wanting to hold her
while the rest of the world is turning and changing. I met Maynard
several years ago and still admired her eyes, though I realized my
wife's are larger and prettier. How and why did he ever Mayanrd
seriously? will
-- Will HochmanAssistant Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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