Subject: RE: For Will
From: Micaela (mbombard@middlebury.edu)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 11:53:37 EDT
Re: For WillAlthough I don't really know any of you, and I haven't quite
straightened out who is and is not a professor, I have to second Midge on
the comment about Will. Having only been on this list a short while, his
"celebratory joy" has not gone unnoticed. I think Salinger would be proud
that not everyone has lost the verve of what he has to say...while the
"angsty"-ness of his characters has been pointed out as "adolescent" and
"high school"-ish, I don't find it to be quite so pejorative. I thrive on
his characters angst, and perhaps you (others) may view that as naive and
adolescent, but I simply view it as less jaded and less interpretive. I
think the closer you are to having the spirit of a child then the closer you
are to the spirit of what Salinger is trying to say. Maybe in twenty years
I, too, will feel differently, but I hope to god that I don't.
Cheers, Will.
-Micaela
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[mailto:owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org]On Behalf Of Will Hochman
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:47 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: For Will
Oh Midge, what a gift...I just sent word of the article to someone who
looks exactly like Seymour Glass to me. My former department chair is a
Hamlet scholar and I wanted to make sure he didn't miss the article. I love
this guy--he really helped me understand what it means to be a professor of
English. Then you send me this email and in my own strange way, I couldn't
have a better literary day if I tried...thanks, just thanks, will
In an article about Hamlet editors in the May 13 New Yorker, there's
this sentence which made me think of you:
"She is one of those rare academics who have not lost a kind of
celebratory joy in the literature they study."
Bye!
Midge
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