Re: The URL
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:54:43 -0700 (MST)
Dear Null,
I just visited and have a few thoughts...
Warren French gave me a picture of himself reading Catcher--it was first
ed so it had Salinger's pixture in it--too bad that snapshot never made it
to one of Warren's book jackets but at least we do have our new bananafish
in bubbles--what a cutie!
As a teacher, I think just getting students to spit back quotes may
start interest and focus, but it's what readers*do* (an idea of Stanley
Fish's who I heard last night but he was speaking on something else and I
left with a head cold anyway remembering only the name his new
university's paper had given him-- "Fancy Knish") with text that
matters...(like my rip off of Salinger's parenthetical dancing?;)
Null, is it possible that it may be more intersting to post why a
quote was chosen and how its interpreted by particular readers? If you
listed page numbers (with edition citation--your univeristy may
apprecaite practicing academic citation and I know I would) and used
reader's ideas, other readers might then read your web page and go back
into Catcher...it seems your web set up is less interactive and
imaginative than it could be, but I don't pretend to be a web expert. I
just read the quotes and thought it wasn't as cool as the way Luke
Seeman set up his "Holden Server" and then thought about the fun of
working in and out of Catcher with our ideas...plus, you wouldn't become
an irritant to Mr. Salinger and may even provide both student and web
surfers a place to "be readers" instead of quotes. I hope you will accept
my play of ideas as well as my respect for using the web as learning
space. My guess is that I and this list have plenty to learn from you,
Null, and I for one am glad to "know" you.
will
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Null wrote:
> To answer the question, the URL is www.example.com.
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