Re: Another JDS/bananafish newbie
Josh Feldmeth (sportcarrier@earthlink.net)
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:02:45 -0700
David:
As a product of provincial Evangelical schools, I was never assigned or
encouredged to read JDS, Hesse, Tennessee Williams - you name it. As a
matter of fact, I don't think I had to read more than two books prior to
college. By the by, they were "The Count of Monte Christo" and "The
Scarlet Letter." Its no wonder why my "Fundie" teachers were attracted
to the latter but the Count is less clear. I guess they saw the
"Christo" in the title and thought it would be upstanding reading in an
otherwise "sea of moral decline".
In any event, I only read all of JDS last year. Actually, I only
started reading in June of 1996. Besides JDS, first on my long catch-up
reading list has been Hesse. And I thought N & G was great. As a
matter of fact I used a passage from N & G as the basis for a Sunday
School lesson. Incidentally, it was a fairly unorthodoxed sunday school
class; including readings from some not so famous Religious Right
Writers as Faulkner, Sarte, Kafka, Whitman and the aforementioned JDS
and Hesse. Hi Ho.
Josh