RE: JD Who?

Chris Ohlhoff (chrisohlhoff@yahoo.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:51:58 -0700 (PDT) 

Cheers to you both

--- "Byrd, Steven T                 " <BYRDS@papa.uncp.edu> wrote:
> 
> Bravo and thank you
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Sean Draine (Exchange) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The value I see in this list is that it attracts
> people who like Salinger,
> > and in my experience, these folks tend make up an
> interesting, intelligent,
> > heterogeneous group, with great potential for
> interesting conversations
> > about a wide variety of topics.
> > 
> > Imagine inviting all of these splendid souls over
> for drinks and then
> > explaining to them that the only subject they may
> discuss is Salinger. It
> > would be awefully boring of you to do so, and it
> would be even more boring
> > for you to run around from circle to circle trying
> to enforce your mandate,
> > and it would be incredibly OBNOXIOUS for you to
> inform a circle that their
> > conversation is "rubbish", but more to the point,
> it just wouldn't work.
> > People would discuss whatever the fuck they wanted
> to, including Salinger.
> > 
> > -Sean
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scottie Bowman [mailto:rbowman@indigo.ie]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:55 PM
> > To: Bananafish
> > Subject: JD Who?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     When you consider the absolute avalanche of
> rubbish
> >     over the past week or two - from my own senile
> flatulence
> >     on the one hand to the generalised infantile
> hyperemesis
> >     on the other - isn't it rather obvious that,
> on this list,
> >     enthusiasm can be generated for almost any
> topic under
> >     the sun EXCEPT the writing of JD Salinger?
> > 
> >     It's like belonging to a church where the
> clap-happy
> >     Christians will play you their guitars &
> tambourines,
> >     campaign for gay rights, sell you holidays to
> the Dead Sea,
> >     enlist Christers for Clinton - do virtually
> anything to avoid
> >     a consideration of the words & life of Jesus
> of Nazareth.
> > 
> >     Maybe the time has come to admit honestly
> that,
> >     for most of us here, he's really an extinct
> volcano whose
> >     modest oeuvre has now been wrung dry of all
> further
> >     possible comment.
> > 
> >     Scottie B.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

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