Re: teens and Salinger
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Fri, 02 Jan 1998 14:18:32 -0500
> I've noticed that a younger crowd has taken over this list lately, while the
> older more established participants are silent. I don't want this to
>become a
> teen Salanger list. Of course I enjoy the link with other teen Salanger
>fans,
> but it is we who are still ignorant when it comes to life and Wisdom. We
>need
> guidance and suggestion from the older participants on the board, as Buddy
> helped Zooey and Zooey in turn helped Franny. I'm asking for any particular
> advice this time, but I feel that I must bring the older folk back in
>some way
> into the mix. Please don't become frustrated with this list just because the
> last few days of posts have been rather...young in nature.
Speaking from the geriatric wing 8-), I'm as delighted to see new people
discover Salinger and other writers nearly as much as I am to hear extended
discussion about Salinger's work and the work of other writers and thinkers
who overlap with the themes and ideas we find in the Salinger universe. I
try to appreciate what I read for what it says, not for the age (emotional
or otherwise) of the person who wrote it.
--tim