Re: I ask this in all seriousness....
Sundeep Dougal (holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 01:55:04 +0500 (GMT+0500)
ooh,
I like it
too!
and, yess, I too remember that part from De Maurier's...perfect example of
what Matt (and Will) would call intertextuality...My favo(u)rite Salinger
character (as of this moment of typing)
and, no, I hdn't made that Webb Gallagher Glass connection. Thanks Becky.
>From all that I hear about Alsen, he does sound very thorough. Maybe the
local American Center would have his book...
Sonny
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Sundeep Dougal (Sonny, to friends) Holden Caulfield, New Delhi, INDIA
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Laura Boyce wrote:
> ooh... I like it.
> "move your ass, buddy" and he says that the "buddy" part was the part
> that really irked him.
>
> laura
> laboyce@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
> > Eberhard Alsen has speculated that Buddy's full name
> > is Webb Gallagher Glass. Boo Boo's son Lionel has
> > an Uncle Webb (the owner of the goggles--the ones
> > that used to belong to Lionel's Uncle Seymour).
> > It's part of why Zooey considers himself a freak. He
> > uses his brother's name almost in vain. Buddy (who
> > did everything else Seymour ever did, or tries to--why
> > doesn't he just kill himself and be done with it?) has
> > had an unjustifiably significant influence on his
> > youngest brother.