Re: The Inverted Forest

--- Aaron Sommers <adsommers@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Seymour is a classic lunatic.
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kim then said:

> >then salinger sure wasted a lot of time creating
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> >subsequent glass family stories if seymour is to be
> >viewed as you say. why not simply leave it at
> >'bananafish'?
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aaron replied:
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> Because Seymour exemplifies everything Salinger
> respects. He is a lunatic,
> an "intricately calibrated" man with depth and
> torment. These stories are
> like some kind of religious quest for him.

kim now writes:

this answer i like. earlier, your 'lunatic' referred
to premediated murder and playing the piano and not
cavorting with his leggy wife.

yes, the stories represent a 'religious quest' for
salinger. and seymour does represent everything
salinger respects: especially the poet and the
god-seeker.

i don't see how you can disqualify everything buddy
says about seymour (that he buddy is misleading us as
to seymour's true nature) if salinger himself states
that buddy is his collaborator and alter-ego. when
buddy breaks into that litany in 's:ai', that seymour
was a great many things to a great many people, but
surely he was all real things to his brothers and
sisters: our blue-striped unicorn, our portable
conscience, our ring-ding enlightened man, our one
full poet, etc., i ACTUALLY believe that's salinger
speaking through buddy; that buddy's credo re the
death of the artist, whether the coroner pronounces it
by consumption, loneliness or suicide, the artist is
truly being done in by the blinding shapes and colors
of his own sacred human conscience; all this is an
attempt to outweigh critical interpretation of the
suicide, and the impression that since seymour
committed suicide he can't be all of these things
salinger respects.

kim

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Received on Wed Mar 19 17:04:44 2003