Subject: "The Hang of It" and other stuff
From: Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Date: Wed Jun 25 1997 - 12:18:16 GMT
Hello.
While in a University Library I came across a book called "The Kitbook
for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines." In it, of course, is the early
formulative JDS story, "The Hang of It." It's an intresting story (I have
to say that it is one of my guilty pleasures...) but doesn't approach the
Glass stories or even some of the "Nine Stories" (Some of which I skip
over).
Also while I was in the closed confines of that Library I found the 1961
"Time" article (Complete with awful pseudo-drawings). It kept referring
to Salinger as Sonny (Which I found annoying) and the article itself was
pretty mediocre. Then I went to the JDS literature and criticism shelf
and picked out a book with a spine of duct tape and opened it to a spot.
Then, I began to read an essay about the prostitue "Old Sunny." To make
a long story short I came up with a theory about the novel CITR.
It is that "Sunny" represents the side of Salinger that wants to go to
Hollywood and write screenplays. Holden says that D.B. went to Hollywood
to be a "prostitute" and maybe Salinger represents his sell-out side in
"Sunny". Notice to that he wanted to be famous when he was called
"Sonny" according to some "biographers."
Graham
"Could Stallone do Mamet? He was BORN to do Mamet!"
-David Mamet.
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