Catching up


Subject: Catching up
From: Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 19 1997 - 00:02:15 GMT


Whoo. Just got through a whole week's backlogged digests after
graduating high school and starting summer work and such and you know,
lots of the stuff I read really hit home. The lack of a rite of
passage...I thought I was messed up for gaining no sense of closure
whatsoever from my graduation. Also, re the entrance into adult society
you discussed earlier: can any adults offer comfort here? I work at
the second-largest summer fair in all of California, so I see 20,000+
people daily. And of just about all I see and interact with, I would
rather shoot myself in the head than grow up like them. But anyways...
If you don't mind a little wallow in the past week I'll try to get it
done in one fell & concise swoop. OK. Re Seymour and Holden as role
models, I think my conclusion (shared by most all my friends) was that
Holden's one flaw was his homophobia. Other than that, well, who
doesn't have higher expectations of people than they themselves can
achieve? Jesus? I hope I always keep expecting more of others and
especially myself than I'm currently achieving. How else will I ever
get to be a better person? Seymour's a bit more difficult. What do you
think of Zooey's bitterness at being his brother's test subject? Was
the way Seymour "raised" F&Z bad? And to whoever said there was nothing
wrong with him an extended isolated stay in the woods won't cure, well,
they thought that about Jack Kerouac, and look at what happened to him
after Big Sur.
Lastly--if this arguement isn't completely dead--how about Shirley
Jackson as one of the greats of the last 50 years? What about Harper
Lee? (Did she even write after 1940? I'm ashamed to say I don't know.)
Also, to whoever said we must all tell exactly why our favorite authors
are our favorites, well, I personally couldn't itemize it. In some
cases I have no idea past that I'm amused by them or they just catch my
attention better than some other author. Is that true for other people
too? Just wondering.
Boy, this has been the week for long-windedness. Thanks for reading (if
you got this far).
                            -Emily

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