Re: try the real

jim, thanks for explaining.

IF you are right, it wasn't the voices that sounded
identical to me. it was aaron's near flawless recall
of details in the stories, and that john g. had
disappeared from sight.

HOWEVER: if i remember correctly, john g. once said
that 'zooey' was salinger's masterpiece. from aaron's
posts, i don't think he would agree with that
assessment.

and to sort of bring this around to salinger: up
through 'raise high' there are no self-conscious
references to responses to his work. but at the
outset of 'zooey' we find the first time: that remark
about people already shaking their heads about his use
of the word "God", and that any further use of this
except as a healthy american expletive would be a sure
sign of him going to the dogs. (granted, all this is
in buddy's voice.) but i do think that's salinger
speaking through buddy: no doubt the head shaking was
going on because of 'teddy' and 'franny' and probably
'raise high'.

and in 'seymour: an intro", we have the further
blurring of salinger and buddy and references to
responses to him and his work. (to me, when there is
the allusion to 'catcher' as one of buddy's works,
well, that doesn't work for me.)

what i guess i'm driving at is the question: does any
one know of other writers who have done this same sort
of thing?

kim

  
--- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> A "sock puppet" is something like an alter-ego or
> second identity on a
> message board or listserve. If I were to create a
> yahoo e-mail address
> named "Elvis_Bovine_Bocephus," subscribe to the
> list, and act like I was
> someone entirely different from myself that'd be a
> sock puppet. Several
> listserves/message boards request that you don't do
> these.
>
> I was playing around calling it a "suck poppet" in
> this case :)
>
> Jim
>
> Kim Johnson wrote:
>
> >>Don'tcha love Suck Poppets?
> >>
> >
> >
> >sorry,i didn't understand this.
> >
> >kim
> >
> >
>
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Received on Fri Mar 21 13:58:55 2003