Re: JD Who?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: Bananafish <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:56 AM
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.
>

Is it possible to return to Jesus and banish the tambourines and tangents
from the chapel?

Jean H.

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