Re: Verse and Universe
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 11:12:54 +1000
I can definitely see your point ... naturally, I'd be at the head of any
line into the bookstore selling Salinger's newest book. But .... well, it's
ironic that you picked John Lennon. Naturally it was a tragedy that he died
and he would have produced some fine stuff had he lived ... but there is
also every danger that we would have had some hideous Rolling Stones
situation with world reunion tours and bone-dragging commercialism. That
`Free as a Bird' business the other year convinced me that had Lennon been
here they definitely would have considered it.
I'm not at all affected by the `coolness' of Salinger's enigma - sometimes
I wish he'd just get over it - but part of me fears that the work he
produces now may be even more obtuse than some of his already published
Glass-tracts. Towards the end of what we know of him he was withdrawing
increasingly into himself and his own little world, and I doubt that
spending three decades in a concrete bunker will have changed that.
So again - I would *jump* at any new Salinger but until that unlikely date,
I've got plenty to chew on as it is. Maybe I'm just buffering myself
against the inevitable disappointment that we may never read any of his
work since Hapworth, or the fact that if and when we do it will be after he
is gone. But I try to console myself with the fact that we have some pretty
damn amazing stuff from him already.
Camille
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