The even less I know...
Prufrock33@aol.com
Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
Salinger was the first writer that made me feel comfortable as a reader. When
I turned the page it was not to finish a book, but to understand a person. I
always believed that Salinger's genius (if you want to call it that...I do)
stems not from who or what he wrote or how he wrote, even. It is from all of
the above. Even those without the exceptional backgrounds of the characters he
uses in his stories can appreciate their honesty. I think that eastern thought
is definitely expressed in his work because of it's raw veracity in the
simpliest (but, yet, very complex) terms. AFter I read Franny and Zooey I
decided to pass out and wake up her. I always felt her ways. I always felt
Holden's ways. We all have. We all have been wanting/needing to get past the
bullshit and the "phonies" because God knows Salinger's fictional characters
hated those "phonies". We never want to wake up one morning in some blankets
and find that our terrible insecurties are in bed right beside of us. We never
want to say we are like Them, even if we do not know who They may be. Maybe
this is just me...I hope not. I would like to think that almost everyone (if
not everyone) breathes not for the sake of breathing but because they feel
obscenely beautiful just to be alive.
Let's talk about Punk rock, let's talk about poetry, let's talk about eastern
thought and tattoos, and being born, and smoking cigars. Not to sound too
absolutely giddy and romantic and silly, but I do not care enough to mail
unless I want to say something. I think we all do. So let's talk and talk and
if Salinger comes up then wonderful...if he doesn't for awhile then he
doesn't. That is maybe what e-mail subjects were designed for, to announce
beforehand.
I just want to share...don't you?
I hope someone out there agrees with me. I know you all got something from
Salinger...he gives something honest and free out to all his readers...but do
not be uptight about it. We aren't here for any damn (in my opinon) RULES or
GUIDELINES but if things flow well then we can do whatever and maybe we can
enjoy this ride? I don't mean to sound cliched. I appologize to all that have
had to read my incessant ramblings and poetry. I just do not have much of a
voice and I cannot imagine that the people on this list do not...so I wanted
to say something aloud to people I hoped would understand.
Maybe I am wrong...maybe it doesn't matter enough.
I just want to do something beautiful...like Franny says the poets do or are
supposed to do. I just want everyone to see something wonderful and I want to
be as honest as Salinger. Who thinks what and how...and if you do please
respond and tell me if I am off on an island all to my self and I should come
back to earth. (My world seems much prettier I must say...and the people here
are nicer)
ANgie