I wonder if buddy's chainsaw isn't linked to mr. salinger's response to mr. howe's remarks... On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Tim O'Connor wrote: > > > _Underworld_ by Don Dellilo... > > Yes ... it comes across quite well, too! > > > something Irving Howe once wrote about about JDS being "finely attuned to > > the vibrations of the American Zeitgeist, so that one thinks of him as > > both innovator and recorder of a new mode of feeling, a new style of > > expression, characteristic of the postwar years." Sometimes I wonder fi > > JDS read the howe quote and said to himself, "but I'm really much more > > Ray Ford to be very savvy about such zeitgeists..." > > Well, we know how Buddy feels about Zeitgeists ... he nearly chainsawed his > foot when asked by some earnest young literary fellow about the modern > American Zeitgeist. In "Seymour," I think, but as usual, I don't have the > text with me.... > > --tim > > >