The Good Old Days
Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:16:59 -0400 (EDT)
Hello,
It is nice to hear from Sonny once again after his relatively
long absence. Welcom back. Still I wish I didn't get the feeling
that he may be succumbing to nostalgia. While I miss Brian F.,
Matts K. and S., helena, and to add one you may have forgotten, Hotspur.
(why sometimes I even miss old Brendan) I think we may be starting
to get old-timers disease (and no, I wasn't at the first Woodstock
festival). Besides, I think it is being less than fair to the very
capable current crop of bananafish.
As for Salinger's works losing their discussability, I beg to suggest
that perhaps all too few of us are reading or rereading them. I have a
feeling that simply turning a few pages could bring many topics for
discussion to the foreground, but in the haze of our aging memories
we tend to simply generalize the stories into the recollection that
the Fat Lady might have been pregnant, and Seymour wore his red
hunting cap slightly down over both ears. If we would like to
discuss Salinger's works, it might help to keep them fresh.
all the best,
Mattis