Re: Welcome to Our Little List, Jerry! and Willie!!

Pamela Deale (pdeale@sjm.infi.net)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 00:05:54 -0700 

a candy colored clown wrote:
> 
> dear [may i call you "Will"] and others,
> 
>         your eloquence has caused me to shed my own alias and transparent
> exterior and reveal my true identity. i am addressing this list because i
> have not been able to find the proper discussion list on the internet
> (being out of the loop for quite some time causes these difficulties), but
> i'm really William Fucking Faulkner.  you may remeber me from such works
> of literature as "the unvanquished" and "barn burning".
> 
>         allow me to explain.  after winning the nobel prize i decided to
> lay low for awhile at the university of virginia, where i had taught for
> so many years.  i am living within the memorialized glassy confines of
> east range room #13, where edgar allan poe had lived before he departed
> for west point (of all places).  i just got my computer hooked up and
> after overhearing the recent difficulties with america online, i decided
> to open up my own account under the alias of my dear friend myron.  so
> please do not question my authenticity.
> 
>         you and others are true fans of my work, and after having
> overheard some of your discussions regarding my book, i'd like to invite you to join me and the sartoriuses within the sunny pastures of yoknopataufa county.

> i repeat, i really am william faulkner.  this is no joke.  the stream of
> conscious guy.  pay heed to my greatness.  if anyone can direct me to a
> faulkner mailing list so i can talk to my dedicated and devoted fans, i
> will repay you with a free copy of my unpublished works, tentatively
> titled "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold." (i love
> that line.)

> willie
 
Nice to hear from you Willie, but I would not call you the *stream of
consciousness guy*. The *stream of consciousness guy* would be James
Joyce, whose line "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets
cold." you properly enclosed in quotes, but did not attribute to him.

I've found the posts from CHamill and the responses to be a hoot,
especially someone's thought that the real JD would pick a more
spiritual ISP than AOL.

I'm very surprised that no one has responded to the notion that Seymour
Glass has a Narcisstic personality disorder. If I were to diagnose
Seymour, I would say he's probably a borderline.  (I'm not a
psychiatrist, I just play one in e-mail.) Now, I may be totally off base
here (not having read all the Glass family stories), but I get a sense
that Seymour is a Christ-like, Siddhartha-like seeker. Soooo, my
question would have to be: if Jesus Christ himself were to be
psychoanalyzed, what would he be diagnosed as?

And the line *mixing memory with desire*... I think that might be from
the Wasteland. Does anyone remember that line from a poen?

I've also enjoyed the discussion about JDS being translated to the
screen. I'm not agreeing that any of the stories should be, but I am
interested in who would be the proper actors to portray the characters.
For some reason, I see Wynona Ryder as Franny. I can't get a handle on
who would be good as Seymour or Holden. 

I'm not the typical Bananafish... I'm a 45 year old woman. I first read
TCITR in junior high (unassigned) and continued reading it yearly until
college. I've dipped into Nine Stories and have read Franny & Zooy and
Raise High. I still haven't finished Seymour or the out of print
stories. What would you recommend I start with for the out of print
ones? Are they readily available on microfiche at the library?