Subject: telephony
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 19:00:00 GMT
Good Lord, first Dubya wins and now I find out that I'm "emotionally
retarded." Will it ever stop?
I've never found Holden funny, personally. I laugh like a hyena whenever I
read "Roofbeam," but if there's a great deal of humor in "Catcher" then it's
lost on me. That kid is suicidal for christ's sake!
Finally, while no one may ever be truly "unphony" without being on the brink
of Nirvana, that doesn't somehow grant a pardon to all the phonies in the
world.
andy
king of the phonies
From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Re: uncollected stories
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:27:34 +0100
Well, Tim would hardly expect me to keep quiet -
& I've already expressed my reservations privately
to Levi.
I hate to see Holden being taken seriously as the
spokesman for a small elite of supersensitive souls
standing out bravely against the insincerities &
corruptions of the adult world.
The point about him, surely, is that he's VERY FUNNY
& we laugh because he personifies all of us as we then were -
in our baffled, sentimental, idealistic, raging, absurd,
paranoid, adolescent selves. To paraphrase the old saying:
anyone who didn’t feel like Holden at sixteen has no heart;
anyone who still feels that way at twenty is suffering
from emotional retardation.
As Wittgenstein must surely have said: The world
is not everything that is the Phoney or the Unphoney.
It's usually both. The truth about it can only be
approached indirectly, gradually & after considerable
thought; it's is not the private preserve of Holden
& his excruciatingly perceptive friends, the Glasses.
Nor of their like-minded followers. That kind
of thinking leads eventually to an appointment
on the steps of the Dakota Building.
Scottie B.
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