Re: Two Birds, One Stoned

TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:51:47 -0700 (PDT)

---Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:20:26PM -0700,
TheSecretGoldfish wrote:
> 
> > slyvia plath lent her copy of catcher to a young
girl
> > she knew but the girl said something like "it was
> > boring" or some demeaning remark about that main
> > character and you could tell by the way ms. plath
> > wrote about the incident that she (like so many of
> > us) instantly condemned the girl for not
recognizing
> > salinger's "drawing no. 1" as a boa constrictor
> > digesting an elephant but saying "why should i be
> > frightened of a hat?" 
> 
> I think you may be thinking of The Little Prince. 
(Note to
> Francophiles: France's 50-franc note is a veritable
riot of 
> Little Prince details.  It's a tribute to Antoine de 
> Saint-Exupery, and has pictures from the book
printed, 
> laminated, and watermarked into the paper.  It's a
work of 
> art in itself; even the fine lines, when looked at
under a 
> magnifying glass, prove themselves to be text from
the
> book.)
> 
> It makes you wonder why we still have the same old
faces on 
> the same old money....
> 
> --tim
> 

ms. plath does make some references to the little
prince and winnie the pooh too, but she lent catcher
to the girl. i use catcher the same way the aviator
used the drawing no. 1. if people think it's a hat i
don't talk to them about anything important.

oh to be french or not to be french,
what rotten luck.

...
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