Re: off-topic griping.

Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:20:22 -0600

>And to bring this all back to a close, I would like to say that apart
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>from all the many reasons there are to like Salinger's writing, some of
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>it I like because of the setting and the syntax of the dialogue, in that
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>i have a romanticised view of what holden's or franny's time was like. I
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>enjoy being able to sink into a book and be transported far away from
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>Clinton's flaccid sex life and the top 40... from Oprah's book club and
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>the new cK camapaign...
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>to a time when people dressed well, cared about the theatre, drank
>martinis and highballs and... oh, you know what i mean.
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>:helena
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hear, hear.  i've always felt (and this is a very un-intellectual statement)
that escapism IS in fact a valid goal of both reading and writing.  perhaps
not the most important goal, but at the very least, a very respectable one.
especially when there's so much to escape from, like the flu, a bitchy
secretary, 200 pages of a human physiology textbook, and an extreme lack of
beer.  just venting, matt
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