Re: Verse and Universe
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:10:53 -0400
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Verse and Universe
Yes. However, I have to disagree with your ideas about The Beatles. If
Lennon were still living John, Ringo, and possibly George would consider a
tour ala the Stones. But, John would have laughed his ass off at such a
silly thought.
>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
>verona_beach@geocities.com
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