Re: Beats me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 11:47 PM
Subject: Beats me.


>Patrick Flaherty wrote, regarding my recent post:
>
>>  Is it really that important to declare Salinger a Beat or a non-Beat?
>
>Perhaps not, but, after careful scrutiny of the post you quoted, I cannot
find
>any mention there of this issue whatsoever.
>
>> _Catcher_ is, in my mind, the greatest book ever written.
>
>The greatest book ever?  What are your criteria?
>
> --
>Matt Kozusko       mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>
Literature, in my opinion, should be judged first on the amount of pleasure
one gets from the reading of it. As readers, we should also consider the
works' intensity and, in a sense, the effect it has on our own lives.  I
realize that by declaring _Catcher_ "the greatest book" I have set myself up
for some well-justified scrutiny.  However, every time I pick the book up I
am given a new glimpse at what I feel to be brilliance.

What issue would you like me to address?

Patrick Flaherty

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