The Rest is Silence
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:17:30 -0400
Patrick writes:
> 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.
Added to these musings, for the sake of argument, or perhaps simply for
the sake of balance, should be William Wordsworth, who might have died,
or stopped writing, or at least moved into the woods and assumed the
happy, bucolic silence appropriate to Lake residents, if not to Lake
poets, a little earlier.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu