Subject: Re: Salinger, Faulkner, Kesey, oh yeah....
From: Jessica and Michele Cook (travelnow@isat.com)
Date: Wed Jun 19 1996 - 02:17:28 GMT
Hey Josh, As I Lay Dying is one of Faulkner's best. PAy attention to the
names of the character, ie Jewel. It is so wonderful!!!!
Jess
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> From: Josh Feldmeth <sportcarrier@earthlink.net>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: Salinger, Faulkner, Kesey, oh yeah....
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 1997 6:07 PM
>
> "Faulkner is the best"
>
>
> here here. Coincidentally, I am reading as I lay dying write now too.
> Quick thought on the power of Faulkner and "the Sound and the Fury." I
> was reading TSATF for the first time on a business flight and in the
> first section I started to cry. I didn't have the fogiest idea of what
> was haping, who was who, or even how old anyone was. But something
> about the text moved me emotionally. I think it's what Vonnegut calls
> the "Anti-Epiphany", a moment of devine significance without any clarity
> mucking up the human connection (Thats from "Bluebeard", I think).
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
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