Re: hey tina, guess what i got

and why tina or will "the pill" hochman wouldn't share is beyond me too. what was the big frickin deal? coupla frickin high and mighty non-sharing 6 year olds who won't share a toy that ain't even theirs...sheez...grow up!

>>> ANELLO Michael J 07/08/03 08:58AM >>>
"He liked Blake and Keats best, and some of Coleridge very well, but I didn't know until over a year ago - and I used to read his glove regularly, - what his last careful entry had been. When I was still at Fort Dix a letter came from my brother Holden, who wasn't in the Army then, saying he had been horsing around in the garage and had found Kenneth's mitt. Holden said that on the thumb of the mitt was one he hadn't seen, and what was it anyway, and Holden copied down the lines. They were Browning's "I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past."

from, An Ocean Full of Bowling Balls

Here's a theme that repeats and repeats, doesn't it? This quote struck me in its relation to Seymour and Hapworth and so many other stories in which Salinger seems to kill off his characters. It goes far in addressing how we should view the nature of their deaths (and the attitude of their lives). I was suprised to find he offers such a generous dollop of zen. Bowling Balls is an excellent story. (My jury's out on the Peter Pans). It reads more like his later works rather than his earlier ones. The story of Kenneth (Allie's) death, it is an examination of the nature of death and immortality. Trying to understand his early works (and Catcher) without these stories is like trying to understand the New Testament without the gospels. Why he never published it is beyond me.

>>> haikux2@yahoo.com 07/08/03 08:50AM >>>
where in the world--how in the world--did you come
across this?

it made me catch my breath.

somehow, seeing that gravestone, i really felt the
FINALITY of seymour's act.

(this is picky, but why do some people persist in
thinking the suicide happened on his honeymoon?)

(though i must say i did like the writer revealing the
first visitor was not jds, but buddy.)

thanks, daniel, many thanks, for posting this!

kim

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