Re: JD Who?
Chris Ohlhoff (chrisohlhoff@yahoo.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 06:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
does that mean you are going to stop posting?
--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> 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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