Re: just the two of us on the Fourth
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Sat, 04 Jul 1998 11:07:15 -0400
Scottie Bowman wrote:
> However that may be, can you, Camille, in all sincerity envisage
> Salinger in some similar situation saying to his editor in
> the New Yorker: `The Pitcher full of Cry, eh ? By golly that's much
> better, old buddy. That's the one we'll use....' ? Or Hemingway
> agreeing that A Farewell to Arms would be more touching with
> a bouncing baby & a lump-in-the-throat ending ?
_The Catcher in the Rye_, of course, turns on just such a mis-hearing.
The difference between Burns's *meeting* a body and Holden's *catching*
a body is all the world. It's the metaphor at the heart of the book.
And there's a curious circle in this discussion for fans of Mr.
Stipe--or "AE" as he's known in these parts, after George Russel of
Dublin fame: Burns also wrote a poem called "Green grow the rashes,"
which I believe is the source for REM's "Green Grow the Rushes."
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu