alien worlds

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:18:01 +0000

    
    Well, Matt.  If you say so.  But how depressing.

    You paint a picture of teenagers whose curiosity 
    doesn't extend beyond the end of Main Street & 
    whose emotional responses are limited to the tragedies 
    of High School.  

    In self-justification, I should have to say that in 
    a small provincial seaport in wartime Ireland there 
    weren't too many cosmopolitans eager to reminisce 
    about Paris in the Twenties or guide a newcomer 
    through the intricacies of European cuisine.  
    Finding out about all that stuff was simply an added 
    excitement to the electrification of discovering this wholly 
    new way the man had found to use words.

    If Bananafish are truly confined in their imaginations 
    to what they already find familiar then the question arises: 
    what the hell are they doing on a list ostensibly devoted 
    to literature?

    Scottie B.