Subject: RE: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 17:30:41 EDT
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From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:50 PM
To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Re: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
'... The Sun Also Rises is supposed to be
pretty, and that's about it ... etc., etc.'
I was on the point of borrowing the words
of one of Ernie's less friendly characters &
advising Patrick to 'remove the wax from
thine hairy ears...'
... when I realised he was sending us up.
Jolly good, Pat. It IS quite difficult to catch
that wonderful mixture of preening triteness
& uneducated but self-assured banality that
characterises the utterances of the current
generation of under-30s.
But you've caught it perfectly.
Scottie B.
>>Although I REALLY don't agree with Scottie's hypothesis >>about under 30's, I think he does have the most >>eloquent way of saying something which is ugly and >>so very clichematic (Everything used to
>>be better when I MYSELF was young) in a very nice, >>albeit woolly, way.
Patrick said
Although I will admit that JD Salinger may have
acquired a taste for beauty in the fiction of the
Roaring Twenties, Salinger's stuff hits you pretty
hard. Teddy (the one with the cruise ship) and
Bananafish, for example, give you these sudden
gut-wrenching turns that aren't pretty at all.
>>Dear Patrick,
>>I really thought these 'gut-wrenching turns' ARE beautiful
Zazie
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