Re: BANANAFISH digest 259

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> He was an innocent bystander.
> He was an Innocent Bystander.
> He was an "Innocent Bystander."
> HE was an innocent bystander.
> He WAS an innocent bystander.
> He was an "innocent" bystander.
> He was an innocent "Bystander."

this whole thing reminds me of chandler's (from friends, the sitcom) way
of talking. i do it quite a lot, which leads, of course, to ridicule
among my peers, but it's really just a verbal tic, and generally only
comes out when i'm angry.

i think that it's an extension of buddy, and not an extension of
salinger. i think the glasses inherited that kind of verbal tic from
their mother (remember bessie was 'surely the only woman in the world
who can write a letter in invisible italics')

it seems as thought the glasses, performers one and all, have a tendency
to dramatise and exaggerate everday things hence te captalisation and
italics...notice how it appears mostly in the dialogue and first person
narration...

what on earth am i saying? 

:helena

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