Re: waiting for the Miracle
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:43:38 -0800 (PST)
Salinger
>arrives at our Bananafish post, with a single anecdote and it's the
>miracle we're waiting for
I've had terrifying dreams that Salinger's agent/attorney, whatever, is
keeping a lazy eye on us, lest we get out of hand, and that he passes on
to Salinger some of our posts that either threaten to infringe on
Salinger's copyright or his good name--which could be any or all of the
posts that I've contributed--and I'm momentarily frightened and palsied
into silence. The only way for me to continue to contribute to this
list is to promise myself that Salinger has much, much better things to
do than sit around reading what I have to say about him.
I'm sorry, Godot, but your dream is something of a nightmare to me.
It's like when I'm being very modern and individual and expressing my
agnosticism in writing or conversation, and I sort of slip into this
post-Catholic-school paranoia that God is listening to everything I'm
saying, and promises me that He won't forget it. While I hope that my
interest in Salinger's writing, should he by some cosmic fluke become
aware of it, would make him happy, even in a very condescending way, I
fear that it would be closer to the truth if he were slightly irritated.
Brendan
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