Influences, autographs


Subject: Influences, autographs
From: Mattis Fishman (mattis@argoscomp.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 1997 - 10:19:01 GMT


Friends,

        Regarding artists and signatures, I'm surprised no one has mentioned
the passage in De Daumier-Smith where he contrasts the nun's lack of a
signature to Bambi Kramer's and L. Howard whats-his-name's (how like me to
forget my friends) prominent and obnoxious initials.

        And, by the way, I always thought that Salinger's favorite author
was L. Manning Vines.

        While on the topic of books and authors reminiscent of JDS, this
caught my attention:

  Old Cato, whose "De Re Rustica" is my "Cultivator," says - and the
  only translation I have seen makes sheer nonsense of the passage -
  "When you think of getting a farm turn it thus in your mind, not to
  buy greedily; nor spare your pains to look at it, and do not think
  it enough to go round it once. The oftener you go there the more it
  will please you, if it is good." I think I shall not buy greedily, but
  go round and round it as long as I live, and be buried in it first,
  that it may please me the more at last.

I really thought that Seymour might have been the author, until I remembered
that I was reading "Walden".

                                        All the best,
                                        Mattis Fishman
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