lowercase/uppercase salinger--HELP
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:27:19 -0700 (MST)
Don't know if this was part of the discussion a while ago about proper
conventions of language and posting here, but I was certainly nodding my
head up and down while reading Seymour--An Introduction (if you really
want to know the truth, my all time favorite Salinger text, dear tygers)
when I came to the part of Buddy saying that "For that matter, it wouldn't
worry him [Seymour]at all if I wrote the rest of this exclusively in
lower-case letters--if my instincts advised it."
Although I do tend to side with scottie in believing the conventions of
language make it's communication more powerful, I think what Salinger has
always said is that the rehtoric and meaning say much more than
conventions can...maybe that's why he uses such an odd captitalization
scheme in SAI--anyone else notice anything about Salinger's use of
captitals and have any ideas about why they appear in an emotional grammar
more than a standard one? will