Subject: Re: Salinger, Faulkner, Kesey, oh yeah....
From: Josh Feldmeth (sportcarrier@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 15:20:30 GMT
David L. White wrote:
> >
> Doesn't anyone think that the article was self-critical as well? It seems
> to me that the author was drawing attention to his cheesy idealism in order
> to make a comment on people, like himself, who rationalize their intrusions
> of privacy with the justification that their on a pilgrimage of some sort.
> At the end, when it becomes obvious that he has done nothing but piss
> Salinger off, it becomes obvious that his hero worship has become foolish.
>
> Or not.
>
> Dave
> Dave: I'm with you all the way - I too believed he was lumping himself
with the throngs. But at the very end, I turned. I don't have it in
front of me, but at the end he (the author) said something to the effect
of "so I stared at the house and made the sign of one arm waving." I
took from that that if you get caught up in the cheese, milk it to the
hilt.
Throughout his essay he tossed around all the possible scenarios for
approaching Salinger, and yet he chose a most obvious (and I believe
obsequious) salute. He may think he was paying some sort of homage to
Salinger or doing what ever came natural. But for me it wasn't
deferance nor orignial.
But hey, I'm probably more amateur than him. He very well could have
been taking himself lightly.
Good point david, that's my take.
Paraphrase - "there are more things under heaven and earth than are
found in your philosophy, horacio."
Adieu,
Josh
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