Re: paedophilia?
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:56:05 +1000
Jim wrote:
> The thing about them surpassing their biological age in wisdom was a
> complaint I read about Hapwroth. The supposedly seven year old Seymour
> presented there wasn't terribly believable to the reviewer...
I guess one explaination could be Salinger's belief in reincarnation -
perhaps his genius children are, in an extension of Wordsworth's famous
`geniuses are those who can rediscover childhood at will', people who have
been reincarnated as children but remain essentially adult. Teddy would
certainly fall into this category - and, seeing Teddy was `based on'
Seymour (as Buddy Glass claims in S:AI), he must therefore have some
similar characteristics (I find seeing `Teddy' as a metatext in relation to
S:AI a very productive viewpoint).
P.S. I tried to respond to the similar sentiments in Dennis Jonnes' email
but my answer came out in Greek writing. Yeah, I dunno why either (:
Camille
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