Re: Bill of No Rights
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:21:00 -0800 (PST)
It
>has struck me as odd how little importance, from what I've read, has
been
>issued towards The quotes on Seymours Wall. That would be on the Zooey
Section
>Of F&N starting at page 178 in the glowingly white version.
I think I've never thought a whole lot about the quotes on the
wall because (I may be ashamed to admit) it was one of the very
few segments of the Glass stories where I fell out of love with
the characters and thought for a second, "Ooooh, we're supposed
to think they're very deep now; that's a little pretentious Jerome,
don't you think?" It may have had something to do with the mood set by
Zooey's need to distinguish himself from the inexorable legacy of his
oldest siblings--I say inexorable because he ended up having to
BE one of those siblings in order right (Left, that is) his sister's
illness---which in turn may have been a by-product of the legacy of
her oldest siblings.
By the way is calling Mr. Salinger "Jerome" on this list akin to
calling the Lord "Yahweh" in Israel? Anyone going to stone me?
The ever audacious
Brendan
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