Re: Sunday Times article
Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:29:56 -0800 (PST)
Jim
You've made a good point. I guess you're right. I just hate to think
that I, personally, might feel differently towards him. I guess I could
ignore the work I didn't like.
Thanks
Florie
>From: blah b b blah <jrovira@juno.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:56:45 -0500 (EST)
>
>Yeah, I understand the concern. But even if his future work was weak,
>that still doesn't change the fact that he's the man who wrote For
Esme,
>With Love and Squalor. It won't shake the work we've all already read.
>
>Something similar happened to Wordsworth. We just ignore his later
>poetry and appreciate his earlier stuff...and he's still Wordsworth,
you
>know?
>
>Jim
>
>On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:51:43 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
><writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>>Jim,
>>
>>But what if its weak. Every writer writes weak work sometimes. What it
>>
>>it changes the way you feel about Salinger? I don't necessarily
>>believe
>>this view, I'm just being a devil's advocate because you know I would
>>be
>>running out to buy a copy of anything released. Its just my worry that
>>
>>my feels about him would change if I was disappointed.
>>
>>Florie
>>
>>
>>>From: blah b b blah <jrovira@juno.com>
>>>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>>>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:49:12 -0500 (EST)
>>>
>>>Actually, the book review I read of Hapworth kinda asked the same
>>>question you did about the potential value of Salinger's "hidden"
>>>work...judging from the direction he took in Hapworth.
>>>
>>>What the heck, even if it's crap I want to read it :)
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants
>>would
>>>try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
>>>
>>>--F.K.
>>>
>>>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:49:17 -0800 (PST) Florie Sommers
>>><writeflorie@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>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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