Re: a master work

From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 11:11:35 EST

Man, you guys are really going out of your way to be annoying... :)

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> '... My suggestion would be to follow the above works
> with a close reading of "Hapworth 16, 1924" ...'
>
> It would take a heart of stone not to add one's own
> warm personal endorsement of this recommendation.
>
> John is absolutely right when he indicates its centrality
> to any understanding of the Glass saga. In its joyous
> exuberance, its droll whimsicality, its engaging circuitousness,
> &, at the same time, its essential limpidity it is surely unique.
>
> There is, of course, a certain naive charm about his apprentice
> pieces, the Catcher & Esme, but nowhere else is his mastery
> so wonderfully & visibly deployed. No one can truly claim
> the title Salingerista who has not first absorbed all the lessons
> & nuances of Hapworth.
>
> Ignore it at your peril.
>
> Scottie B.
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