Subject: Wedding Advice? Quoting Salinger on Love?
From: Will Hochman (hochmanw1@southernct.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 10:34:14 EDT
This Saturday, I'm supposed to perform a wedding for a close, East
Village friend. He's a painter and sculptor, though since our wild
days he's become a chiropractor and now settling down with a lovely
wife. The wedding will be upstate in NY in a field near Woodstock.
There are more than 200 people expected. I was asked to do the
marriage because my friend doesn't want a religious service and
thought a poetic ceremony would be better. I have recently
(seriously!) become ordained by the First International Church of the
Web (are you loving this yet Scottie?) which is a front for St. Lukes
Evangelical Church. I've avoided reading RHTRBC like the plague. I
will offer the couple a few of my best love poems, discuss the myth
of Baucis and Philemon (as told by Hamilton based on Ovid), offer
silent mediation, read "Loves Comes Quietly" by Robert Creely, and
then the couple exchange vows.
My bananafish question is what passage from Salinger would be worth
citing or mentioning? I almost always find a way to reference
Salinger in most of my public doings and yet I'm stuck here on what
to use in the ceremony...any suggestions about a quote on love would
be appreciated.
-- Will HochmanAssociate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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