Re: Is Salinger from the Geat Generation?

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:06:58 +1000

> So, for instance, readers for the next six hundred years will understand
> (interact with emotionally and intellectualy? feel a personal bond
> with?) _Franny and Zooey_, but possibly not _Gatsby_?  Peruvian field
> workers in 2010 will step gingerly over discarded copies of the Viking
> _Beat Reader_ on their way to lunch break, where they will tear eagerly
> through the pages of "D-D Smith"?

Good point, but then again, the average person knows pretty much nil about
passados, punto reversos and Elizabethan folk lore but `Romeo + Juliet' was
still a hit 400 years after its initial release. I think certain things,
certain feelings and human traits will never be eroded by time. I never
found the fact that TCIR was set in the early 1950's detracted from my
enjoyment of it, even though in a way that time and place is almost as
alien to me as is Elizabethan England.

Camille 
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