re: hunting hat

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:01:17 -0700 (MST)

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
> 
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