Re: irrelevant mush - delete immediately
David Alan (das42@hotmail.com)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 17:54:30 -0700
>well, kind of. i sat in the back garden and read sophie's world (a book
>i didn't enjoy in the slightest) and am now sporting a deliciously pink
>sunburn. and i ATE apples. (one of my last apples for a while, four
>wisdom teeth out on monday. ugh.)
>
Ugh, indeed. I had that done recently and it wasn't fun or anything, but
it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I mean I healed pretty fast and only
had about a day of swelling and not being able to eat solid foods. Good
luck!
>> Holden is my idol.
>
>
>hmm... he's not *my* idol. for me, like Elizabeth Wurtzel in Prozac
>
>Nation, he's more of a what-could-have-happened. he's got some
>
>admirable characteristics and all that, but i don't think he's someone
>
>to idolise. i tend to look up to people who seem to have their lives
>
>sorted out and know what they're doing, what the answers are, and holden
>just doesn't have that quality. i can't really 'idolise' him cause he's
>just as fucked up
>
>as me.
That last line was great. I agree with you, and I was going to bring this
up to the list before but I figured it had already been discussed like mad.
There are a lot of things Holden thinks that I agree with... but I think
there are just as many that I don't...
My favorite paragraph (or couple of them) in _Catcher_ (and in all the
books I've ever read probably) is toward the end when Holden is telling us
about how he feels about that Natural History Museum. With the Eskimos and
all and how he likes it because every time you go there everything is
exactly the same, only *you* have changed. That line about seeing one of
those gasoline rainbows kills me.
Anyway...
David Alan
das42@hotmail.com
http://www.biogate.com/david