Re: The confused entry of a newbie
Camille Scaysbrook (the_globe@hotmail.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
I would like to offer a slightly more optimistic hello than did Mr Hotbuns
who apparently thinks the world is against him. I for one am very happy to
have you on a list which is far, far from a being a sinking ship.
Welcome to the SS Salinger and feel free to rip your mask away or keep it in
place as you please!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>Hi again (again for me, since I tried to mail you without being
authorized)!
>
>I was fooled by the introduction text saying: “ Feel free to subscribe
and
>introduce yourself by sending a message to bananafish@lists.nyu.edu ”
>
>I thought it meant I was to mail you and then, maybe, if I didn’t make a
>total --- of myself, I could join. So I felt real free to subscribe and
>introduce myself, and here is what I wrote:
>
>Hello all!
>
>I’ve been an active Salinger reader for ten years now, meaning that Zooey
>started out being a few years older than me first time he appeared, and
>then, last time I read F&Z, he was a lot younger (as was his behavior, I
>noticed :).
>
>Something about the characters stick on me, makes me come back from
whatever
>expedition I have been on. Jesus asking Zooey if he could have a small
class
>of ginger ale is just something one has to come back to.
>
>The God of search engines, the Alta Vista, helped me find this message
>board. It does look pretty alive and kicking, judging by the bulk of
>messages.
>
>Introducing myself, hmmm. This (The Laughing Man) is really my ol’ zone
>name, from my short period of Internet Online Gaming. The name got stuck
on
>me and now I can almost feel myself crossing the Chinese-French border,
my
>hideous laughter roaming the countryside.
>
>When I do take that alter ego-bag off my head, my eyes rest on the city
of
>my heart, Stockholm. I travel quite a lot (not only between China and
>France), but returning to the clean Stockholm air and the safe sound of
>sirens, I feel totally at rest.
>
>Workwise, I find myself putting a tie on four days out of five. When did
>that happen? I spend years and years at the university, switching from
>physics to philosophy to literature and back to physics, going for grad
>work, than switching again to history of science to actually do grad
studies
>– happily ignorant of dry cleaners, ties and board meetings. And one day
I
>wake up and find myself telling old guys in large rooms what to do in
their
>businesses, power-point being my primary work-tool.
>
>No wonder I go back to my happy days of reading Salinger, “mixing memory
and
>desire”: imaging myself in the back of an army truck (we have mandatory
>military service in Sweden, for your information), endless hours of
waiting;
>or reading aloud to a new girlfriend, watching her reactions; or simply
on
>the cliffs of Amargos, suddenly unaware of the deep blue ocean around me.
>
>Nostalgia, yes. But there is much more to me in reading Salinger. That’s
why
>I wanted to join. To hear your thoughts and share my own. I hope I’m
>welcome.
>
>/The Laughing Man
>
>
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