Subject: A perfect day
From: Brian Huskey (bhuskey@mail.ggg.net)
Date: Tue Jun 10 1997 - 06:43:06 GMT
O.K.
I may as well jump right in with some of the things I have been
considering this time around. All this may have been covered before but
let's cover it again because I'm going to the beach in an hour and I'm
not wading through the archive. So, onwards and downwards...
My girlfriend (In the middle of Franny and Zooey) just called me to
remind me that The Glass family lives across from a private school for
girls (I think you know where I'm going with this). I have a book of
critical essays on JDS and as they were written some time ago they are
somewhat hesitant to tackle Seymour's (or Buddy's) pedophilac
tendencies. I say Buddy's because in Seymour an Introduction Buddy
tells us that his family members thought that the character in
Bananafish more closely resembles "someone else" and not Seymour. Buddy
also has a tendency to stare at his students tight pedalpushers as he
thinks.
My rationalizations are as follows:
Rilke (I feel like I should learn German as Seymour instructs Muriel)
plays with the notion that God created Children without knowing that
they would grow up to be adults. Read "Reflections" again on the
Bananafish homepage (I've tied my left hand behind me chair making it
harder for me to quote copywrited material here so don't be afraid).
I'm contending that His attraction to children is spiritual rather
sexual. Alot of Salinger's adults are floored into spontaneous acts
involving "wild hands" and so forth (Oh God, I did it).
Alright, enough for now. I'm going to the beach...
rob
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