Re: Sunday Times article

Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:49:17 -0800 (PST) 

Dickinson also wanted her work burned when she died. Actually none of 
her stuff was published during her life time, it all came after she was 
gone thats why none of her poems are named. I worry though that Salinger 
is just smart enough to burn it before he dies. I want nothing more than 
to see all his hidden work published for everyone to love but I don't 
think it will ever happen. Firstly, because of my above stated reason 
and secondly because the people around him protect him to such a degree 
that I can see them betraying him even after his death. 

I also worry that his recluse writing will be disappointing. Because we 
have such a wonderful little group of work we figure that all his work 
is wonderful. I'm sure that there is stuff there that he wouldn't  have 
published even during his publishing years. I worry that if it is all 
released we will be flooded with work that is not his choosing and not 
his best work. 

In a blue sky world I would love for him to choose the work that he sees 
fit for publication after his death and lock away the remainder. No 
matter how much we love him there is no way that all the writing he has 
done since he took off is as good as the work we already have.

What do you all think?

Florie   


>From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:20:01 +1100
>
>bob pigeon wrote:
>> if he destroyed them that would be so ridiculous
>> kafka's dying wish was that they'd burn all his books something like 
that
>> and instead his friend published them
>> hahaha
>
>This has happened to a lot of writers. My thought on the matter is - if
>they didn't burn them themselves then possibly they didn't *really* 
want
>them burnt at all. This is certainly the case with Katherine Mansfield, 
who
>requested that her remaining writings go this way - then her husband 
spent
>the next 30 years or so getting rich off them.
>
>Still ... we have the stories and that's the main thing.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
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>

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