Re: Robert: An Introduction


Subject: Re: Robert: An Introduction
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 12:20:21 EDT


Hi Robert,

Welcome to the list. I haven't read Dreamcatcher so can't help you
there, but it's always nice to have new fish.

Love, Lucy-Ruth

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:07:03 EDT AStranger2@aol.com wrote:

> Not exactly sure whom I'm sending this out to, so like an errant
> e-pigeon, I'll simply attatch a note to its leg and hope it flaps its way to
> the proper receptacles. I'm a long time JDS devotee (which probably ranks
> somewhere between dilettante and afficionado--the latter admittedly sounding
> more Hemingwayesque anyway), but have had my interest piqued again just
> recently by my reading of "Dreamcatcher".
> Actually, I meant "Dream Catcher". But oddly, I read them both,
> back-to-back. Never having read Stephen King, I decided to see what that was
> all about. And, then, I picked up the Margaret Salinger biography to see the
> real skinny about JDS. If anyone out there (exactly whom am I talking to
> here--my psychologist? Hello?) has read it, you know that Salinger probably
> had about "two hemorrhages apiece" after its publication.
> I haven't read any of JDS recently--except "Blue Period"--but have
> probably read all his "published' stuff about thirty times. I must re
> -emphasize--not recently. A friend of mine called about two months ago to
> ask me if I thought "The Royal Tennenbaums" reminded me of the Glass family.
> I didn't see the slightest resemblance myself, except that they are both
> eccentrically gifted. (Where was the search for "satori"?)
> As you can see, JDS has influenced my thought process and my writing
> as I constantly digress and overqualify everything...and when I'm especially
> not careful I tend to underline or inflect, like crazy--obviously I lack his
> craft in such usage. But, I try not to overdo it, and constant-ly have to
> re-edit myself. Well, someone once said, "genius is the ability to edit
> one's own work."
> For some reason, Phoebe is actually my favorite character in ways.
> I mean, she's so damn cute she just kills me. And while Jane is probably the
> ideal girl, I don't blame Holden for calling up ol' Sally. (I can be totally
> superficial at times--I really can.) And what color is that damned mare
> anyway? But I digress again.
> So, I don't know if I've violated ettiquette here. (Please tell
> me.) Or if I've done this in the proper manner--I did read the FAQs but
> couldn't really absorb it all. I have a question--are we going to spend the
> rest of our lives rubbing all the FAQs off park benches so that Phoebe won't
> see them?
> Any-way, if anyone would like to discuss "Dream Catcher" send me an
> e-pigeon. I'm the only person in my--albeit--JDS sheltered world that has
> read it. Actually, I'm the only person I know in my circle who even knows
> what it is. Oh, well, rejection world.
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> robert
>
> p.s. In my novice attempts with this Major Domo fellow, I hope I haven't
> errantly sent off a zillion of these things to the complete list. If I have,
> many appy polly loggies...

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lp9616@bristol.ac.uk

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