Subject: Re: Have another
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 17:42:09 EST
Paul Kennedy wrote:
>By the way, what colour is the cover of your Catcher?
Gabe, ignore this shameless line of questioning. That our dear Mr. Kennedy
would like to use you to prove a point question is unconscionable. I refuse
to let you be the unsuspecting and innocent arbitrator of such a discussion.
Fie, fie, Paul Kennedy.
And then Mattis Fishman wrote:
>...behind the cupped hands that hide the smiles I think there
> is almost the universal sentiment that "he had it coming, the
> old devil".
'Tis true, tis true. Ah Mattis, only you could say it so very perfectly.
(I loved your goodbye to Ed, too, by the way.)
And only Scottie could provoke the ire of an individual so very skilfully.
And at last, an answer to your question, Gabe. I still remember the day
when I read "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" for the first time. I'd read F&Z
first, RHTRC, S:aI next, and then rushed out to the bookstore to get Nine
Stories.
I wanted anything, anything at all that would give me a key to the whole
Seymour question. And then I read Bananafish and pow. There it was, the day
that I'd been wondering about, the reasons more unclear than ever.
Then, after wondering for years about the whys and the wherefores, you
should hike down to the library and get a copy of the New Yorker containing
"Hapworth." Making the copies and sitting in a dark corner with the secret
story in your grubby little hands is almost a rite of passage.
I wouldn't recommend any other order than the one I just described. The
next steps would be to make a list of everyone to whom old Buddy alludes and
read them too. (For it was then that I discovered what "that bastard Rilke"
was all about. Not to mention old Kafka or even poor Soren Kierkegaard.
Bliss, my friend, bliss.)
Best of luck to you, and welcome to the pond.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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