Re: The Inverted Forest

--- Aaron Sommers <adsommers@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Salinger wrote it, or at least finished it in 1946.
> I know this because I
> have had the opportunity to read some of his letters
> and the story is
> completed about the same time "Slight Rebellion Off
> Madison" was Okd by the
> New yorker. He worked on it for about 6 months
> probably more or so he tells
> Maxwell.
>

aaron, thanks for the information above. and lucky
you to have read those letters!

> He even describes
> what kind of poet he is, one that is functioning
> under the dead-weight of
> beauty. So he can't live with anything but...
>

yesterday i said that salinger used the word
'psychopath' to describe ford. i rechecked last night
and the correct term appears in the passage aaron
alludes to; it runs more or less: 'he writes under the
pressure of dead-weight beauty. he's the most gigantic
psychotic you'll ever meet. he *has* to be.'

of course, as jim points out, robert waner is not a
disinterested narrator, but a fellow competitor for
corrine's hand.

kim

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Received on Wed Mar 19 11:48:17 2003