Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
From: Chris Kubica (ckubica@insightbb.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 12:27:14 EDT
Yeah, it could be absolutely insignificant...after all, it's a little girl
saying "six". How old is she, anyway? Six, by chance? I don't
remember...Kids put special significance on the number of their age, I'll
bet...
Also, the number six DOES repeat. There are six tigers running round the
tree..."Do you call *that* only?"
Sincerely,
chris kubica
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> From: Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
> Organization: Drew University
> Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:52:57 -0400
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: Cheever and Salinger
>
> Nah, Cecilia, you REALLY need to read Umberto Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_
> if you haven't already :) -- funny how that makes reference to Kabbala as
> well :). The point is, ESPECIALLY with numbers, ANYTHING can be related
> to ANYTHING. EVERYONE uses numbers :). Literally. I can connect Salinger
> to virtually every author in world and certainly every religious tradition
> through the number six. What about the number 666 in Revelation? It's the
> number of man and also represents the sign of the Antichrist and rebellion
> against God. So, could Salinger be presenting a moral story about what
> happens when man rebels against God? Excess leading to self destruction?
> That also fits the story.
>
> My point was not that the number was absolutely insignificant, but we need
> to consider the possibility that it may be. And that, if we are going to
> make associations, they can't be random or simply guided by our own
> imagination -- Salinger himself would have to give us reasons for that
> association. Sticking to the context of the story, the number 6 doesn't
> seem to recur, so it's not given any significance that way.
>
> I tend to agree with Scottie on this one :)
>
> Jim
>
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