Subject: Re: Article on Salinger
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 09 1997 - 23:52:16 GMT
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Paul Gauthier wrote:
> 2) Stephen Foskett, of course, named this forum after "A Perfect Day for
> Bananafish." Since I've been on here, at least, there hasn't been a
I always thought it was the Salinger list, called "bananafish" or
"bananafish-l" for no particular reason other than it's an easy
identifier. Many of the questions/discussion topics you mention have
indeed been discussed here often and at length. I don't see any reason
why they should be avoided--certainly not forbidden--but I can also see
some sense in perhaps collecting the meat of the topic and making it
available as a FAQ or digest or something. "Banafish" *is* rather a
tedious topic for me personally (many years of discussion culminating in a
70 page thesis a few years ago), and I'm sure some amount of list members
feel the same way. Most of us, though, probably aren't quite so sick of
it, and the majority ought to rule. I'm just thiking in terms of other
literature lists that have a sort of "usual questions" document available.
New perspectives are, of course, invaluable; that's probably the most
important thing to consider. Not that anything needs to be considered.
I'm just rambling, actually...
If not particulars concerning "Bananafish," I'm sure there are some
Salinger facts many new members would like to have available in FAQ form.
Perhaps the list could put something like this together? Stephen's web
site probably does nicely itself ( haven't been there in a while), but is
there any sort of a B-fish charter? Would such a thing be useful?
mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu
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