Sat AM Cartoons
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 09:02:16 -0700 (MST)
The March 5 edition of _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ has a back
cover essay called "Literary Mergers, From 'Moby-Shtick' to "Madame
Gatsby'" by Lawrence Doughlas and Alexander George. In this piece of
literary humor was this passage which I offer to our list because it
seemed funny...please take it in the light of the subject header, I'm
recovering (badly) from root canal and not going to defend it beyond doing
my bananafish duty and reporting it...the whole essay is a playful attempt
a merging great novels to play with the increasing trend of international
mergers...
"Thatcher in the Rye: In this sparkling merger of J.D. Salinger's seminal
tale of adolescence with Martin Amis's _Money_, Holden Caulfield decides
to sell out big time and throw himself into the world of phonies. Armed
with a B.A. in semiotics from Brown, Holden heads to London, where a P.R.
job with Saatchi & Saatchi has him running an ad campaign for an
unprecedented re-election bid by the Iron Lady. Read on as Holden pawns
his brother's mitt to support his coke habit, and as he and sister Phoebe,
now a supermodel with a serious eating disorder, rewrite the rules of the
London Club Scene."
will