Re: holden, et al. vs. the glasses


Subject: Re: holden, et al. vs. the glasses
From: Kim Johnson (haikux2@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 11:41:07 EDT


robbie,

thanks for the response. i agree with your assessment
of teddy; please see my other post for my feelings
about 'hapworth'.

i'm wondering: if not the glass stories, what would
you have wanted salinger to write after 'the catcher'?

same question to the other bananafish.

kim

--- "L. Manning Vines" <lmanningvines@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Kim said:
> << surely you're not suggesting that salinger's
> writing,
> after 'the catcher', is the work of a looney? >>
>
> I'm not sure enough of the chronology to say,
> simply, After Catcher. And
> Looney might be too much. But I do believe that
> Salinger got caught up in
> himself (How did he phrase his fear? Getting lost
> in his own mannerisms?)
> and declined. His writing became less potent, I
> think -- and I might say
> increasingly irrelevant. I found Hapworth,
> Salinger's ugly publishing
> demise, to be quite atrocious. I don't think these
> opinions are the most
> popular here, but I have them.
>
> I should add that I recognize, for instance, Bad
> Hemingway, and delight in
> it anyway, because Hemingway so thoroughly delights
> me. Even when he is not
> great -- even, indeed, when he is Bad -- I delight
> in his manner of being
> so. I can say this too for Salinger, but in a more
> limited way. I don't
> find Seymour: An Introduction to be at all good, for
> instance, but it still
> delights me. I enjoy it, but in a different manner
> than I enjoy certain
> other things, which I think more highly of. But
> Teddy, on the other hand, I
> find quite nearly unbearable.
>
> Also:
> << granted, in the 22nd century salinger might be
> known
> only as a very minor author with one book of note:
> 'the catcher'.then again, in the 22nd century his
> glass stories might be acknowledged as his
> 'finnegans
> wake'. >>
>
> If I ackowledged them as that now, I would not mean
> it as a compliment. So
> I should hope for the former.
>
> -robbie
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