Re: too many rodeos

Scottie,

Oftentimes, your prose is so beautiful that it requires two readings: the
first to absorb your writing and the second to understand what you're
saying. Your words don't lack clarity whatsoever; it's simply that a few of
us Amateur Readers are rapt with astonishment after reading them for the
first time.

With that said, I disagree with your overall assessment of the situation.
I'm a fairly new Salinger reader. After picking up 'Catcher' four years ago
as a way to further impress my 8th grade English teacher with knowledge of
classics, I became enamoured with his writing. I devoured it. Last summer,
I went to the library and copied each of his underpublished stories, page by
page, astonished by my dusty treasure-trove of old copies of the New Yorker,
Cosmopolitan, and the Saturday Evening Post.

I still (and perhaps never will) fully comprehend the intricacies of these
texts. Further study of them seems to me an everlasting process of enhanced
joy and affection for these beloved Caulfields, Glasses, and Goldwaters --
not to mention the Old Bananafish himself. I may be simply an
overwhelmingly naive 17 year old (I feel like I invoke that just like
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer does on that SNL skit), but I don't feel that I will
ever truly wrap my arms around a Salinger text.

Again, no disrespect for your opinions; oftentimes, I venerate them. But
this time, I must disagree.

-K

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Received on Mon Mar 24 03:02:40 2003