Re: not to start a rumor...

--- tina carson <tina_carson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What's
> more, it has no plot,
> and only serves as a vehicle for Salinger to show
> off his vocabulary and
> display his infatuation with his own characters.
>

i think 'plot'--or the insistence upon plot--gave out
a number of decades ago. today's romances need plot;
today's best sellers need plot; but serious fiction
doesn't need plot. (anyway, there is enough plot in
the thing; just a huge number of digressions are also
included.)

i didn't find the jds's vocabulary spectacular in
'hapworth'. if jds reads as much as seymour does, now
that's spectacular.

his infatuation with his own characters had been a
pronounced limp for at least a decade before
'hapworth'.

kim, who still ranks hapworth the last of the glass
stories.

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Received on Fri Jun 27 12:58:33 2003