Re: This list isn't Universal/horse manure tastes like fertilizer.
TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
---WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu> wrote:
>
> Actually, I think "billy" and "jerry" will both
stand the test of time,
> though I'm not saying Mr. Salinger's work equal's
Mr. Shakespeare's work.
first of all, i understand shakespeare just fine. and
there are footnotes and annotations for the rest of
it. but i don't really like puking all over myself
when i'm trying to read. and that's just something
salinger's never been able to do for me.
>
> I disagree strongly with the idea that Salinger's
context (fifties,
> sofisticated new yorker) makes his work limited--I
think what emerges from
> that context in terms of self and god seeking is
something our twenty
> third century progeny will enjoy.
>
> will
>
>
this reminds me of a short story a friend of mine
wrote called "here's your story." it's about a guy
trying to write the perfect story. it's an amazing
satire coming from a seventeen year old. there's a
part in it where he looks at the calender and then
writes the date on the piece of paper (march 11
1998), and says "shit! now it's dated, how will it
stand the test of time?" or something like that.
it may interest you to know that what the he had
actually written was just "the end" over and over.
this brings up something else. the medias which
criticism makes use of. if the critic is equal to the
artist, wouldn't criticism of say, a painting, be
more valid if the critic painted his criticism of it?
or danced his criticism of a merce cunningham
performance? it would make being a critic a little
bit more fun anyway.
...
the first time i read "raise high..." i thought that
salinger was enclosing a blank page by way of
explanation for the story.
and i went aroung thinking that until the second time
i read it. and was disappointed just because i like
the way i misread it better.
my apologies.
...
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