Subject: Re: The whole Lennon thing
From: Dan Owens (lorena@computer-services.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 1997 - 00:16:50 GMT
Jonathan Moritz wrote:
>
> >Let me simply say this for starters, I think this matter falls in the
> >category with every mother who tries to blame rock music for a child's death
> >or suicide....
>
> The strongest (? or most lengthy!?) case I have heard for associating
> Catcher with violence is presented in the movie "Six Degrees of
> Separation". The protagonist in the movie quotes from the book at length
> (with page refs) the bits about:
> * Holden's red hunting cap featured through the novel: 'This is a people
> shooting hat,' I said. 'I shoot people in this hat.'
> * "I'd rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an axe
> than sock him in the jaw. I hate fist fights"
>
> The guy in the movie goes on to try to link it with wider themes of 'youth
> today'.
>
> >Sorry if this sounds like hyper defensive hot air, but I have defended
> >Salinger a lot to others who simply say "Oh yeah the guy who killed Lennon,
> >he was wacked out on Catcher in the Rye or something"
>
> I don't think it's hyper defensive at all, Kevin. I think we do need to
> argue the case for Holden, and for the role of literature more generally.
> Many of us bananafish may adore or model outselves on Holden, and even
> those who mentioned a few weeks ago that as they aged they started to feel
> a bit more distant from Holden's views, I think we still all feel Holden
> knows which way is up. In response to banning Catcher (or Huck Finn), we
> need to encourage people to see through (or in) his mischieve to the heart
> of what Holden does hold dear.
>
> Jonathan.
>
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> in the body of a message to "Majordomo@mass-usr.com".I totally AGREE with all of you!!! I just wanted to know more about it,
because I just found out about it YESterday!!!!!! Besides, those parts
about the "people shooting hat" cracked me up, they didn't make me want
to kill someone.
JenniferO
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