Re: Definition of Natural

(here's a rambling, faintly defensive response (since i have a copy of 22 stories) to your last e-mail. i'm not really being defensive though, i just started my reply and it turned out looking that way...promise :)

you're right, and, i've heard that reference before. 1974 - he wanted them to die "natural" deaths. i think he was lying about his not trying to hide the gaucheries of his youth. therefore, i think there are other lies in what he was saying. one lie being that he DID intend to publish them at one point (a short story collection called "The Young Folks). but burnett screwed that whole deal up and he never forgave whit, nor saw publishing in the same tint/hue again.

"I wrote them a long time ago," Mr. Salinger said of the stories, "and I never had any intention of publishing them. I wanted them to die a perfectly natural death. I'm not trying to hide the gaucheries of my youth. I just don't think they're worthy of publishing."

however, a year earlier their natural deaths would become impossible. development began on the protocol later to be called TCP/IP, it was developed by a group headed by Vinton Cerf from Stanford and Bob Kahn from DARPA. This new protocol was to allow diverse computer networks to interconnect and communicate with each other.

thus is born this "unnatural" environment where everybody's farts are held in stinky stasis until the end of time.

you know, interesting thought here..."hapworth" was in those original bootlegs that salinger got so worked up about. by 1974, was even hapworth a gauche work of his youth? interesting...i wonder what he was in the middle of writing in 1974, and if he now thinks it gauchery of his youth. what about what he was writing in 1984...1994? back on track now...

"Some stories, my property, have been stolen," Mr. Salinger said. "Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel."

he is upset that they were "published". this was what i think he meant by "stolen." however...who is publishing these stories now? nobody. so nobody's stealing. the above quote sounds as though salinger liked his uncollected stories as much as a favorite raincoat. i think if he really liked them that much he would have published them as he did nine stories. they weren't new yorker stories, but a writer writes to be read...am i wrong? maybe i am. a writer writes to write. a person desiring to be read writes to be read. i'm getting confused.

Discussing his opposition to republication of his early works, Mr. Salinger said they were the fruit of a time when he was first beginning to commit himself to being a writer. He spoke of writing feverishly, of being "intent on placing [his works] in magazines."

in regards to him saying he never intended to publish those 22 stories, i think it's a more likely case that salinger didn't want his farts sticking around longer than they should.

"It's amazing some sort of law and order agency can't do something about this," Mr. Salinger said. "Why, if a dirty old mattress is stolen from your attic, they'll find it. But they're not even looking for this man."

i think those stories were a dirty mattress to him...which would probably account for why the cops looked as hard as one would look for culprits who stole a dirty mattress.

is it possible to steal a whiff of j. d.'s farts? it can only be a borrowed whiff, since i won't live forever. and, the world will eventually end...thereby bringing the eventual natural death of these stories that salinger so wanted in 1974.

unfair? about as unfair as it would be if the old goat remains silent to the ripe old age of 120. way less unfair than having copies of his work that he never published. TINA! c'mon tina!

>>> haikux2@yahoo.com 06/13/03 11:50AM >>>
don't know about raincoats but that quote from
sandwich sorta sounds like jd's complaint when the 22
stories were published:

Some stories, my property, have been stolen," Mr.
Salinger said. "Someone's appropriated them. It's an
illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you
liked and somebody went into your closet and stole it.

--kim

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> There are only two mentions of raincoats in
> Salinger's 22 uncollected stories. Am I missing any
> from the widely released stories?
>
> From THIS SANDWICH HAS NO MAYONNAISE
> I feel my elbow getting wet and bring it in out of
> the downpour. Who swiped my raincoat? With all my
> letters in the left-hand pocket. My letters from
> Red, from Phoebe, from Holden. From Holden. Aw,
> listen, I don't care about the raincoat being
> swiped, but how about leaving my letters alone?
> He's only nineteen years old, my brother is, and the
> dope can't reduce a thing to a humour, kill it off
> with a sarcasm, can't do anything but listen
> hectically to the maladjusted little apparatus he
> wears for a heart. My missing-in-action brother.
> Why don't they leave people's raincoats alone?
>
> FROM HAPWORTH 16, 1924
> Please send anything interesting on human
> civilization well before the Greeks, although quite
> after the list of civilizations in the pocket of my
> former raincoat with the unfortunate gash in the
> shoulder, which Walt humorously declined to wear in
> public.
>
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