Re: Verse and Universe
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 21:04:32 -0400
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Verse and Universe
>
>> Very well said, Matt. Your comment that "Shakespeare wrote more things"
>> really stirred something in me as a reader.
>
>Not me. Not me at all. I think that's just so irrelevant! In some ways, I'm
>kind of glad we only have one novel from Salinger. It's like `Fawlty
>Towers' - two seasons, each one a tight and perfectly polished gem. Compare
>that to something like `Roseanne' - started OK, built solidly then
>disappeared up its own butt into self indulgent twaddle, sticking around
>for at least two seasons later than it was already DOA. What does the size
>of the body of work matter ??? `Wuthering Heights' is one of the most
>brilliant books ever, but it's Emily Bronte's only book. Does that in any
>way make her a lesser writer than say, William Morris, who produced so much
>poetry that it fills a whole wall at my university library (some of which
>has literally never been opened). Nah, nah. We spend enough time discussing
>the few books he did put out, that's enough for me (not to say that I
>wouldn't be head of the queue if he brought out a new one).
>
>Yours soberly (:
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
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I cannot understand how you can be "kind of glad we only have one novel from
Salinger." I mean, isn't that a bit like saying "I'm glad John Lennon died
in 1980." I guess I might come close to understanding that it's sort of
"cool" that Salinger is this kind of mysterious, obscure figure who only
wrote a relatively small amount of fiction. However, anyone interested in
him enough to be on this list should, in my opinion, still be hungry for
more. "that's enough for me" ??? I just don't get it.
Patrick