Re: Definition of Natural

From: Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 17:11:01 EDT

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
>
>
> 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.

very good point. HAD the book been published, HAD
oona said 'yes', would we have the cantankerous jd we
have today?

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

stories = flatulence?

how
f-r-e-u-d-i-a-n.

 
> 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...
>
>

good point re hapworth being in them.

but by 1997, he wants to publish hapworth. alone. by
itself. without a typical 'companion' story. why.
why. why. (if there are so many unpublished glass
stories....)

>
>
> 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!

he has only 36 years to go.

tina seems to be diffficult to woo.

--kim

 
>
> >>> 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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