Robert: An Introduction


Subject: Robert: An Introduction
AStranger2@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 14:07:03 EDT


         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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