Bananafish Archives, January, 1999: Introduction

Introduction

citycabn@gateway.net

Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:35:51 -0800

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BE388E.C85CF7C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My name is Bruce. This morning I subscribed to the list. I recently = bought my first computer. Stumbled across Bananafish. By way of = introduction: I read Catcher in summer of 68; fell head over heels in love with the = Glass Family in summer of 70; took a Salinger seminar at Cal State = Fullerton in 71 from Dr. Som Ranchan; had a dream of the Glass Family; = became interested in Rilke and poetry; moved to San Francisco in 72 to = attend grad school in writing; JDS was one of 3 authors for my orals = (others: Keats and Pound); worked in bookstores, museums, auction house; = developed writer's block in 79; from 82 to 98 worked as a legal = proofreader; department eliminated in summer 98; mid-life crisis = underway; started to write again in Oct 98; read JDS for the first time = since 74 this past month (Raise High and S: an Intro); started to reread = Hapworth in The New Yorker (lucky to find a copy years ago) on January = 1st, 1999, JDS's 80th birthday. Did anyone mail a blank card to = Cornish? =20 ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BE388E.C85CF7C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">

My name is Bruce. = This=20 morning I subscribed to the list. I recently bought my first=20 computer. Stumbled across Bananafish. By way of=20 introduction:

I read Catcher in summer of 68; fell = head over=20 heels in love with the Glass Family in summer of 70; took a Salinger = seminar at=20 Cal State Fullerton in 71 from Dr. Som Ranchan; had a dream of the Glass = Family;=20 became interested in Rilke and poetry; moved to San Francisco in 72 to = attend=20 grad school in writing; JDS was one of 3 authors for my orals (others: = Keats and=20 Pound); worked in bookstores, museums, auction house; developed writer's = block=20 in 79; from 82 to 98 worked as a legal proofreader; department = eliminated in=20 summer 98; mid-life crisis underway; started to write again in Oct 98; = read JDS=20 for the first time since 74 this past month (Raise High and S: an = Intro);=20 started to reread Hapworth in The New Yorker (lucky to find a copy years = ago) on=20 January 1st, 1999, JDS's 80th birthday. Did anyone mail a blank = card to=20 Cornish? =20