Subject: Re: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 09:15:11 EDT
heh....good thing Chris left the list ;)
Jim
BookBritt99@aol.com wrote:
> I thought I would point something out about digression. Don't get
> exasperated- I have a point. In Catcher in the Rye, Salinger wrote about
> digression, and people yelling digression at people, which is what I assume
> Zazie was talking about. And Holden felt bad, because if a person is into
> what they are talking about, it isn't nice to yell digression at them. So
> whether we are being Salingeristas or digressing, it doesn't really matter as
> long as we are enjoying the conversation. We have to assume that of course,
> Salinger will probably be the start and finish of a lot of the conversations,
> as he should be, because that is the reason we are on this list. But if
> someone decides to talk about Eastern Religions or some of the very
> interesting topics that y'all have talked about, than let's!
> Britt.
> P.S. Has anyone read some of the letters at the Letters to J.D. Salinger
> site? I read some the other day, and frankly, some of them were so bad I
> don't blame him for being a recluse. The ones from some of the students were
> scary. I can just imagine them at their computers with their homework
> assigment sheets in front of them, with all things you should include in your
> letter to get an A.
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