Subject: Re: Hapworth Revisited
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 16:40:33 GMT
It's obviously time to stand up and be counted among the HAP Bashers.
I remember reading the entire story in the relevant edition of The New
Yorker, in the stacks of Douglas Library at Queen's University in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, when I probably should have been studying for final exams,
back in 1972. I'd found a list of all the uncollected but previously
published works at the back of some volume of Salinger criticism....
(Does anyone else get the feeling that stories that start this way sound
like heartfelt confessionals to the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous?)
Hapworth provided perfect punctuation for my personal Glass Family Infatuation.
When I finished it, I didn't feel any necessity to read another sentence
about the Glass family--EVER!
And I actually didn't feel the urge again until very recently--and I can
tell you that I'm definitely NOT holding my breath for Hapworth. Been
there. Done that. And I'll pass on the T-shirt....
In my dotage, I seem to be going off chocolate too.
Do you think there could be any connection?
Cheers,
Paul
PS--Hors texte: Even the distant memory of Hapworth gives me a
hypoglycaemic reaction--like most of the other overly self-indulgent Glass
family stories.
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