Subject: RE: Touch
From: horanp (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 11:43:33 GMT
Normally I hate doing this, but I'm on a crusade for online honesty lately
(because what's the point anyway?). I wasn't being sarcastic here. I
took an English class this year focused all on "close-reading"
techniques, which means we would literally spend an entire 1.5 hours
on a single Virginia Woolf paragraph, for example. Therefore, I've been
trying to apply this to Salinger, as it is remarkably applicable. However,
much to my chagrin, this instance proved a failure. Whatever wit you
guys thought I was engaging is purely unearned. I was speaking in
earnest about my supposition, but, due to lack of support from my
intellectual higher-ups, I should probably rescind the comment.
I only wrote so much so I didn't look stupid. Boy, do I hope it worked. I'm
really not this much into beating up on myself.
Straight-shootin Pete.
>===== Original Message From bananafish@roughdraft.org =====
>> --- horanp <horanp@kenyon.edu> wrote:
>> > I think that's really brilliant, Cecilia, and a personal kudos for
>> > using a
>> > word like "doppelganger" (my computer doesn't have the two dots
which
>> > I don't know how to spell).
>>
>> It's called an umlaut, and if you don't have the ability to do it on
>> your keyboard, in most cases, you can write it as an "oe", i.e.
>> doeppelganger.
>>
>> > This is interesting too. You bring up healing: is there perhaps a
>> > Biblical element to laying of the hands on one's head and kissing
>> > (washing) of the feet? This does not seem to apply with
Seymour's
>> > back, though, nor perhaps at all due to the Zen theme presented
>> > even before "Nine Stories" begins.
>>
>> I think it's a mistake to try to apply any one, simple answer to
>> anything our man in Cornish has written. Yes, it's possible that
>> there's a Biblical element in it, I'd say even probable, given the
>> nature of these stories. However, I don't know that there's a Biblical
>> element in all of them, or if there is, it's to mask a more Eastern set
>> of beliefs.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cecilia.
>
>Okay guys,
>I sorta think that Cecy is not quite catching on to horanp's sarcasm
here,
>or, maybe, Cecy should be recommended for not reacting to his
sarcasm?
>Or maybe horanp wasn't sarcastic? Nooooooo way. We should all
applaud
>Cecilia for the fact that she won't let herself be provoked by Peter!
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