Re: particulars
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:33:46 +1000
>
> It seems to me it's the very particularity of a great character
> that makes him vital & memorable, not the universality of
> his emotions or actions. We all `know' Holden because JD gave him
> a highly configured personality - but did we ever actually encounter
> him out there ?
O absolutely - my brother *is* Holden Caulfield, no doubt about it. His
dream is (and I'm not kidding here) to be a Vagabond - to go out to Tibet
and pitch a tent in the woods, build a house, to kill and skin his own food
... and TheSecretGoldfish used to get quite agitated when I asked him if he
was really Holden Caulfield (there was no insult intended, I really
believed he was!!!)
But this is all beside the point anyway ... sure, I don't know too many
guys who get around in nighted colour, drove their girlfriend to death and
have weird sort of Oedipal things happening with their mother - but I *do*
know plenty of thirty-three year olds who wonder quite a lot whether it is
worth being or not being ... and *this* is what I'm getting at.
Camille
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