Re: Salinger, Faulkner, Kesey, oh yeah....


Subject: Re: Salinger, Faulkner, Kesey, oh yeah....
From: David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 13:18:44 GMT


>My two cents on the Esquire Article. I thought it did a decent job of
>setting the Salinger table for first time diners. But the author was
>really cheesy, idealistic and almost revolting. Kinda like a precious
>moments figureine, something you really want to pick up and smash down.
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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

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