Subject: Re: a sixth angle
From: Patrick Wong (ssfsx17@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 12:11:53 EDT
--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> '... with Salinger, you can't call anything
> insignificant ...'
>
> Cec is absolutely on the button. With Salinger,
>
> EVERYTHING is insignificant.
"If there is an amateur reader still left in the
world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I
ask him or her, with untellable affection and
gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four
ways with my wife and children."
Raise High
The Roof Beam,
Carpenters
and
Seymour
An Introduction
This reminds me of Mark Twain's introduction to The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which he threatens
physical violence against anyone who tries to make a
cohesive whole out of the story. Evidently, even
though some authors and / or poets enjoy the "modern"
style of interpreting things however they want and
creating whatever symbolisms and parallels that they
feel like, there still exist a few who believe that
their works have no such hidden meanings that one must
extrapolate out of thin air. Unfortunately, my High
School English instructors continuously scoff at me
for trying to inform them of this view that is so
explicitly stated by the authors of the novels we are
writing essays on.
=====
"That which is truly wisdom will seem like foolishness to a fool, and that which is truly foolishness will seem like wisdom to a fool."
- Proverbs
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