Re: My last post regarding 13th Gen issues......


Subject: Re: My last post regarding 13th Gen issues......
From: Robert McNamara (rjmac@america.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 1997 - 14:30:56 GMT


On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Andrew Kennis wrote:

> As far as J.D. Salinger being on this list goes, don't hold your breath.

Let's hope he's got better things to be writing.

> Finally, I can assure you that societal discourse was *not* what drove
> J.D. Salinger into hiding. I think it was his being so averse to western

You can "assure" people?

Interesting. When last did you talk to Jerry?

And come on, don't pull a Sid Perelman and say you go up and visit Jerry
and then say you can't talk about it.

> culture with its tendencies towards shallow and superficial thoughts and
> actions that did it more than anything and I think that the philosophy
> that he consistently develops and posits in his books suggests as much
> as well.

Have you read his recent manuscripts?

I note you use the present tense ("develops"), so maybe you can fill us in
on what Jerry's been writing lately.

By the way, if he hates "shallow and superficial thoughts" then what's he
doing with that huge TV satellite dish on his property? Is that just to
catch his son in "Captain America" re-runs? Or is it that he's so "averse
to western culture" that he needs to pick up his Zen teachings via
satellite?

Just curious,

-- Robert

rjmac@america.com

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