Re: Welcome to Our Little List, Jerry! and Willie!!
Sundeep (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:18:36 +0500
>And the line *mixing memory with desire*... I think that might be from
>the Wasteland. Does anyone remember that line from a poen?
Yeah, it is from the Wasteland, The Burial of the Dead
April is the cruellest month,
breeding lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing memory and desire,
stirring dull roots with spring rain...
for some reason the lines that keep coming back to me from this deadly poem
are:
my cousin, he took me out on a sled,
and I was frightened
he said ---
marie, marie, hold on tight.
and down we went
in the mountains,
there you feel free
i read, much of the night,
and go south in the winter
(sorry, i'm quoting from memory and eliot ofcourse would capitalise, too,
and break his sentences differently, i'm sure)
>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?
oh, there is no such thing as a typical Bananafish. On the other hand we
*are* all typical by the very simple yardstick of being on this list...As
for my unsolicited opinion on which of the Uncollected:
Heart of a Broken Story
A Girl I knew
The Varioni Brothers
and then perhaps the Wasteland, uh, counterpoint: The Inverted Forest...and
then the rest..
Sonny
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