Re: Infinite Jest, Laughing Man and Too Much Joy. . .


Subject: Re: Infinite Jest, Laughing Man and Too Much Joy. . .
From: Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 1997 - 11:53:36 GMT


Hotspur8@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-06-20 15:31:50 EDT, you write:
>
> << On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Steve Gallagher wrote:
> > >> if Salinger wasn't little heavy-handed in pushing that idea in my head
> > >> and, therefore, all the more brilliant for leading me astray? Perhaps
> > >> his shot at a _Hills Like White Elephants_ style of story.
> > >>
> > >> SGallagher >>
>
> excuse me, but what salinger story were you originally referring to.
> thanks.

It's weird, you know. You can go and type your heart out and be
completely moving and reach like Holden does for the nuns or De daumier
does for the painter and send it off to the Bananafish list (a group you
believe to comprise faultless sensitivity) and wait and anticipate and
wait and nothing but a couple of posts to your own address offering you
silent direction. (How that completely reinforced the whole thread I was
pushing for.) Then you go and make some lousy tip of the tounge remark
about how you thought THE LAUGHING MAN's demise was the result of a
pregnancy and that Salinger tried (unsuccessfully, in my opinion) to
present the reader with the clues for such an assumption in a subliminal
fashion similar to Hemingway's HLWE and everybody's coming out of the
shadows for a shot at you. (I mean, thank Gary Ernest didn't go and
throw a couple of baby carriages next to the table in the train station.
THAT's what I call heavy handed.) If you really think about it, it
sucks.

-- 
Steve Gallagher
sgallagher@lasersedge.net
http://www.lasersedge.net
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