Re: Back from the dead, or the living


Subject: Re: Back from the dead, or the living
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 12:28:15 EST


Denis,

A very interesting and bull's eye post. Please keep the list informed IF
you hear anything.

AND: My dad was born in 1921. ALL he TALKS and THINKS about is WWII. I
wonder if JDS is back there, I wonder if he ever tried to write that WWII
novel he speculated about (maybe he's working on the damn thing NOW), I
wonder if in a sense _Catcher_ and the Glass Saga served as some sort of
escape from all that he experienced in those four years in the forties.
Amongst those underpublished 22 stories there is a handful were he's really
grappling with the horror. (I don't think "Esme" is as raw an experience as
some of the others.) And of course soon WWII is left forever behind. Ah,
just thought of what Boo Boo said in her letter to Buddy in _RHTRBC_:
"Maybe it's going to be perfectly all right, but I hate 1942. I think I'll
hate 1942 till I die, just on general principles."

--Bruce
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From: denis jonnes <djengltl@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Back from the dead, or the living

>Dear all,
>
>Have just re-subscribed to bananafish after "holiday" of many months,
>but am now back reading Salinger plus the biographies. I feel
>Hamilton's book is weak, not because of his generally hostile attitude
>or of what happened as result of Salinger's court action against
>Hamilton, but because it was poorly researched and is virtually all
>speculation. My feeling is Salinger is very different as writer and
>person from the "character" (Hamilton's term) Hamilton gives us.
> Alexander gives us more info about crucial war years, but still not
>much, and my real question is whether any of you might have info or
>leads on Salinger's wartime service. I have left message with the 4th
>Infantry Division Homepage guest check-in requesting such, but so far
>(perhaps not so surprisingly) have had no replies. Salinger was
>probably only important American writer to have landed at Normandy on
>D-Day and I find it incredible that we have no account of this.
>
>Regards to all,
>
>Denis Jonnes
>
>CM Fisher wrote:
>>
>> > i'm actually starting to get a bit sick of reading about salinger's
life.
>> > i've read hamilton's biography and am in the process of reading
>> >alexander's biography, but i don't really find them interesting. i
mean, i
>> >can see the obvious parallels between his work and his life, but i don't
>> >like seeing them. i like to look at the work all by itself, not
thinking
>> >about what influenced salinger to write it, not thinking about salinger
at
>> >all. i know, i know. how can i call myself a bananafisher?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> em, i'd say you're the truest type of bananafisher. though personally
alas
>> i can't get enough re old jd's life. he'd hate me but love you, you see.
>> you're his ideal reader.
>>
>> >
>> >also, have any of you ever experienced a certain jealous feeling towards
>> >salinger's books? you know, you lend someone your copy of a salinger
book
>> >and then all you can think about is wanting to read that particular
book.
>> >and every time you see them with it, you say to yourself "why, why did i
>> >lend them that book?!?!"
>> >
>> >anyhoo....
>> >
>> >love, em
>> >
>> >
>>
>> 'a certain jealous feeling': what an understatement! yes, i'm guilty!
in
>> fact, re all the books i *really* care about!
>>
>> my simple solution: we have separate his and her bookcases. and of
course
>> the communal ones.
>>
>> as scottie says, buy and give,but never lend. i *never* lend. though
when
>> giving i tend to horribly florid inscriptions that one day i know i'll
>> encounter in used bookstores.
>>
>> ah, another 'love'.
>>
>> cmf
>>
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