Re: A Hemingway connection?
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:19:08 -0500 (EST)
Sorry, I hadn't read that particular slice of Hemingway, but I'm
interested now. Your post did remind me of something, tho --
I finally attended that Salinger weekend class. It was fun. Nothing
terribly in depth, of course, but the professor loved his subject and had
a few things to say.
First off, out of 20 students present, only four sent papers. This was
an alumni college thing, so the professor had to say, of course, how
happy he was to see that Rollins graduates had not changed over time :)
He mentioned that in 1996 only ONE piece of scholarship related to
Salinger was listed in the MLA, and I think in 1997 there were nine. So
things are a bit slow here. He made some interesting comparisions
between...are you ready for another dead horse?
The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye :)
It had to do with Nick Carraway rubbing the obscenity off the steps of
the Gatsby mansion at the end of the book.
He said the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox were leading their
respective divisions, that Mickey Mantle has just been knocked back down
to triple A, but that the manager of the Dodgers was still confident he
would be a good replacement for the aging Joe DiMaggio. heh.... :)
We talked about Holden's proclivity to lie, about the effect of the book
on people who read it as teenagers and then later as adults, etc, etc. A
lot of our discussion wasn't too different from some of the things we say
here...
it was interesting.
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.
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