Subject: Re: Matthew: An Introduction, and theoretical Glass stories
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 09:53:26 GMT
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:44:00AM +0000, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Let me introduce myself. My name is Matthew Jones and I am a retired writer
> living in Jamaica. I've only just "logged on" to the internet and the first
> thing I looked for was a Salinger website. From there I was led to this
> mailing list.
Welcome, Matthew! That's quite a user name you have on
hotmail.com....
I look forward to your contributions to this ongoing madhouse of
conversation.
> I admire Salinger for his self-imposed silence and apparent discipline. I'm
> hoping that we will see some more of his work. I presume it will be
> posthumously published. I'm crossing my fingers that I'm still around at
> that time! I imagine that Salinger will have everything properly planned
> before his death. The ideal situation (for me) would be his estate releasing
> a book a month for a couple of years. Plain covers with only title and
> author name. I hope they don't adopt the Hemmingway strategy of slowly
> releasing the unpublished work over decades. I'm eighty this year, and don't
> like my chances of being here for another 20 years!
I worry about this too, and I'm half your age. I worry that they'll
let the work out in dribs and drabs and that I won't live to see it
all.
On the other hand, I hope they don't issue diluted works like TRUE AT
FIRST LIGHT, where we don't know where Hemingway begins and the editor
ends.
> This mysterious novel, "The Fall of the House of Glass", which was
> supposedly written in the early 1970s, is intriguing.
Where did you hear about this title? I've heard it before as well,
but I can't recall the source.
> what on Earth could it be about? Salinger worked backwards in his Glass
> stories, from 1948 to 1924. So before that? Stories about Seymour's
> ancestors? Or did he start filling the gaps in the overall narrative?
I would guess that if the work follows any cohesive pattern, there
will be a lot of gap-filling. I find myself hoping that it will not
be in the nature of Hapworth.
Glad to have you here!
--tim o'connor
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