An Aaron can hide a John

You're right, Jim. Look at what I found in my mail-box while cleaning it
this morning.

V.A.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Sommers" <adsommers@hotmail.com>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: a master work

>
> Mr. Bowman wrote:
>
> No one can truly claim
> >> the title Salingerista who has not first absorbed all the lessons
> >> & nuances of Hapworth.
>
> Hear, here. Moreover, without absorbing the priceless story "Hapworth 16
> 1924" no one can even strive towards claiming the specious title of
> Salingerista.
>
> I am still waiting for Will to exlain how J.D. Salinger "later appealed to
> his readers." I know the Dear Old Tyger Letter holds some meaning for him
> and that is fine but...To once again be my old fuddy-duddy self I really
> want him elaborate on how the Old Hermit appealed to his readers. Of
course,
> those promised new glass stories, aside, we can dissect his last published
> work, found on pages 32 to 113 in the June 19, 1965 New Yorker but it
would
> be a lugubrious process and surely has been done on this list before. For
> now, though, I'll pull out a nugget that caught my eye as I re-read the
> tour-de-force the other night:
>
> "...Both are written by distinguished, false scholars, men of
condescension,
> exploitation, and quiet, personal ambition. I have personally finished
> reading their books with tears of shame and anger. ...Godsent models of
the
> feculent curse of intellectuality and smooth education running rampant
> without talent or penetrating humanity."
>
> Straight from the mouth of an intricately calibrated man of seven.
>
>
> Cordially,
>
> John Gedsudski
> Adjunct Professor of Linguisitcs
> Philistia Community College
> 501 Boorish Drive
> NY,NY
>
>
>
>
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