Subject: Re: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
From: Chris Kubica (ckubica@insightbb.com)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 08:04:21 EDT
I dunno, Sun Also hit me hard. The people in it are not at all pretty. Coen
(Cohen?) isn't pretty, neither is Mike or Brett or even Jake. They're
pathetic, mostly drunk, selfish people. I think JDS took that (which was
deSCRIBed beautifully) and made the harshness/meanness/problems of his
characters a bit more blatant somehow. But how did he do it? I dunno. What
do you think of all this?
Sincerely,
chris kubica
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> From: Patrick Wong <ssfsx17@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:28:11 -0700 (PDT)
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: Re: Sun Also Rises and "Six."
>
>
> --- Chris Kubica <ckubica@insightbb.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just finished reading The Sun Also Rises by Mr. H.
>> and I can see a strong
>> influence of this work on Mr. JDS' stuff, especially
>> the early uncollected
>> stories (what's the one that takes place on the
>> cruise ship and is pretty
>> damn precious?)
>>
>> I also would like to publicly put money on the guess
>> that Sybil sees six
>> bananafish because Jake in TSAR catches six trout.
>>
>> Discuss. :)
>>
>> P.S. Whenever someone asks me the quantity of
>> something I have no answer to,
>> my pat answer is also always "I dunno. Six?"
>>
>> Sincerely,
>
> The Sun Also Rises is supposed to be pretty, and
> that's about it. That book did not hit me particularly
> hard, and did not seem to have a purpose of any sort
> besides to be beautiful. The only message that one may
> get out of it is about the struggle of mankind to come
> together and be complete. That is a very popular form
> of writing amongst some, and it is the arch-villain to
> all those who prefer deep and meaningful books.
>
> Although I will admit that JD Salinger may have
> acquired a taste for beauty in the fiction of the
> Roaring Twenties, Salinger's stuff hits you pretty
> hard. Teddy (the one with the cruise ship) and
> Bananafish, for example, give you these sudden
> gut-wrenching turns that aren't pretty at all.
>
> =====
> "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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