Re: Re(2): feet, Salinger's Feat
Camille Scaysbrook (the_globe@hotmail.com)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:01:09 -0800 (PST)
>Just a thought,
> If Salinger does believe that they soul is in the feet and the head is
>filled with the phoniness, so far away from the feet. Maybe that is why
>children are used as his innocents because children are generally
shorter
>and hence, closer to their feet.
>Mark Holt
Salinger also seems to have an interest in speech - what is and isn't
said (which comes from the head). All his phoneys tend to talk a lot,
and about very little - why Holden wishes to pretend he is a deaf-mute,
or at least wishes to marry one. The logical extension of this would
have to be the deaf-mute in RHTRBC (such a wonderful character!).
Seymour too is, to all intents and purposes, `mute' (even that which we
do hear him saying is reported through others) Where, then, does that
leave Buddy Glass and Holden Caulfield, whose raison d'etre seems to be
to talk (and talk and talk (: ) - that is, to us? Maybe what he is
saying is that you've got to talk to the right people about the right
things ... don't ask me where feet come into all this (:
Camille
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