Re: and the band played
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:42:33 +1000
Paul Kenndy wrote:
> ....Wouldn't you LOVE to know about the sorts of wartime experiences that
> brought Sargeant X to the curtained English cafe for his transformative
> session with Esme and Charles? (Somehow I've always felt that Sargeant X
is
> the closest character we'll ever get to semi-autobiographical
Salinger....)
> I truly wish I'd sat my grandfather down for a trans-generational
> heart-to-heart before he died.... It might have done both him, and me,
alot
> of good.....
Hear hear on the Salinger war book! When I saw `The Thin Red Line' I rushed
home and re-read all the Salinger war stories because it seemed to me the
closest in sentiment to anything Salinger ever wrote on the subject. I
can't remember, I think it was in `The Stranger' that he mentions the
isolation that people who were there feel from those who weren't. This is
something so very much in evidence in the older generation over here. My
grandfather fought too, and though he died when I was four or five (of
diseases exacerbated by wartime malaria) I have since discovered his war
diaries, and fascinating reading they make, too.
>From your fellow colonial,
Camille
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