Subject: Re: JDS = ADHD?
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 19 1997 - 18:08:02 GMT
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Stephen Foskett wrote:
> Well, "long enough" is a relative term. Many authors crank out a novel
> in a month. I believe Salinger worked on Catcher on and off for five
> years or more. This sounds to me like another example of perfectionism,
> not a short attention span!
Ten years! From the sale of "I'm Crazy" (or was it "Slight Rebellion"?)
to the NewYorker in 41 to the final publication in 51. And each episode
fit into the whole as a kind of installment. LIke independent clauses in
the great sentence that is _Catcher_, I suppose. But I would suggest
that this is characteristic of Salinger as a writer rather than of
Salinger as ADHD--I don't think (and, granted, it's onnly speculation)
that ADHD affects lifestyles and occupations in any sort of consistent,
predictable way. Not in this instance, anyway--not at the level of
writer/writing.
matt
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