Subject: mutterings
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 13:03:35 GMT
I was in a bookstore and again came across the Ben Yagoda book re _The New
Yorker_. Reread the JDS portions. If memory serves, he quotes a letter
from Maxwell to JDS's agent re original version of APDFB (no opening Muriel
scene). The letter is dated _January 1947_. That would put this "see more
glass" before Ray Ford. (I think.) (This is important but why has slipped my
mind.) Again floored to read that JDS had three stories rejected in '48 and
seven in '49. And interesting to see that fifteen poems were sent back in
'45.
I know it's denial, but I am beginning to really think APDFB is not part of
the Glass Saga. JDS didn't have an iota of a clue about the family back
then, and I even have doubts he had the eureka satori re the nine of them
until _after_ "Franny". Spring of '55, on some Cornish hill with a fine
view, he was struck down.
I agree that Seymour killed himself; I just don't know the particulars
(apart from he walked, talked, took a dip and fired). That German
typewriter invalidates that story.
--Bruce
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