RE: Salinger


Subject: RE: Salinger
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 11:28:19 GMT


Hi Jordan,

Very nice letter, but you 'slip up' f(for want of a better word) at the
end, if only in theory:
>>I feel much better having lost my pretensions about why he stopped
>>publishing. I still wish he'd read the letter I sent him, but now I know
>>why he wouldn't.

How ever much I try to lose my calvinistic ways, I still think actually
THAT is pretentious, I mean you very final statement, that you KNOW (??!!)
why he doesn't respond to your letter.
It's quite hard to guess even what is in the mind of your GF or BF, let
alone a man as complex/twisted as JDS.
Furthermore, didn't you see that famous interview with all these
contemporary writers being confronted with a lot of 'stuff' that was
extracted from their work? The general feeling amongst the authors was one
of 'not in my wildest dreams ...' etc.

The points you make about tcitr are, however, feel very true to me, and are
a nice addition to what i laughingly call 'the whole 'catcher in the
rye'-experience.

What i wonder however, is what is your view upon 'Seymour: An
introduction'? Do you think that is esoteric, just as Hapworth is?

Zazie.
PS. And now for the usual excuses: Please keep in mind that English is not
my native language! :-) ('Mean' remark: how well would you have done in
Dutch? Or French, even?)

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