Subject: RE: Salinger
From: Jordie Chambers (c_jordie@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 04:24:14 GMT
Oh. You know what? I thought that S: AI, since we're talking about
Salinger (I have a girlfriend named Patsy), at least the first part (I put
it down after the first part (It was the first Glass story I'd read)) was
wicked, but when Buddy went in to all the literary references I felt like he
took off and I was left in the dust. I did read the poem about the white
cat biting Seymour's hand, and I thought that was pretty cool, but I
couldn't read it from start to finish just for his stylistic mannerisms or
his thoughts (I read it at 17).
About my non sequitor (a conclusion that doesn't follow it's premises), I
didn't think I defined pretentious in that way. To say I know what was
going through his head would be pretentious, I just think I know where he's
coming from. He did say that the book was partly autobiographical. Maybe
I'm just trying to slide out, but I didn't mean to imply that I know why he
doesn't read his letters. I don't expect him to be like me. I'd read every
one. Wouldn't you?
Curious,
Jordan
PS, your english is fine. Thanks for the reply regarding the GF BF thing.
I was tired.
PPS, I couldn't access your web page! Maybe check the link?
>From: "zazie" <zazie@Raketnet.nl>
>To: "c_jordie@hotmail.com" <c_jordie@hotmail.com>,
>"bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Subject: RE: Salinger
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:28:19 +0200
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>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.
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>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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> Please don't visit my crappy homepage
> at zazie.huizen.dds.nl/~zazie
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