Subject: RE: uncollected stories
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 12:55:22 GMT
I agree with you on that one, Will. One of my *other* hobbies is collecting
cd's and records, and I lament the proliferation of the internet as it has
made it so easy to find anything and everything at the touch of the keypad.
Half of the enjoyment of the hobby was the searching, and now that is gone
(of course, I could still physically search, but it seems as if most of the
market has gone on-line). I wonder sometimes if the Internet is as great as
so many people say it is. We sit and stare at these little boxes so much,
it isn't healthy. The computer has become an integral part of our lives, at
the expense of real human interaction.
andy
From: Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: RE: uncollected stories
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:24:27 +0800
It makes me sad to see these stories online. First of all, I still
think fondly about the fun I had researching the stories and making
my xeroxes of them in the mid l980s. Having a sense of the magazines
in which they appeared taught me much about the stories and their
writer. Second, Salinger has made it clear that he is not interested
in collecting these stories and offering them to readers beyond the
time in which they were published (and beyond the research of section
men like me!). However, part of my scholarship is that the stories
have been undervalued by Salinger and contain literary moments that
still ignite passion in readers. Did I bookmark the site? Yes! Do I
accept the fact that the web is changing our way of experiencing
"printed" words? Yes! Am I feeling conflicted? Yes! Will
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