Re: Wanted: Salinger hints for a visit to U.S.
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:37:27 -0800
Bethany M. Edstrom wrote:
> Cornish, NH is 5 hours from NYC, I wouldn't recommend it. I live near Cornish
> myself and can tell you that there's not much to it. It's just a sleepy town on
> the Connecticut River populated with general stores, horse farms, and one very
> elusive, out-of-sight writer, of whose privacy the locals are pretty protective
> (for good reason). The local shopkeepers aren't going to give directions to his
> house, in other words. That's why he likes it around here, I imagine.
Thank you.
I don't understand why people need to get as physically close to a stranger who is
a public figure as they possibly can. What's THAT all about? You've got the words
that he spent countless years carving for your edification....that's an incredibly
revealing intimacy that is a million times more enlightening than going "Cool.
That's his sidewalk. Cool. That's his tree." Sidewalks are sidewalks. Trees are
trees.
I've been a Dylanhead for years but have never entertained the thought of an actual
pilgrimage to his house. I once read of a female fan who had been arrested on his
property because she was spray painting the windows of his house black. (Probably
trying to ingratiate herself with him by reminding him of the line in "She Belongs
To Me": "She can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black.")
Can you say "nutjob"?