something beautiful from Franny
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:52:57 +1000
I was just reading F & Z for the first time in a surprisingly long while,
and it struck me that the definition of Salinger's poetry comes from the
mouth of Franny herself:
`I know this much is all,' Franny said. `If you're a poet, you do something
beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to *leave* something beautiful after you
get off the page and everything.'
This `something beautiful' seems to be analogous to that poetry between the
lines I was talking about. I reccommend everyone who was in that string go
back and have a read of `Franny' - appart from being an almost perfect
short story it really is a text on Salinger's thoughts on spiritualism,
academism and creativity.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442