Subject: RE: An ocean full of bocce balls
From: Micaela (mbombard@middlebury.edu)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 14:46:25 EDT
This is complete speculation, but I have a feeling that his reaction to the
reordering of "Nine Stories" has something to do with the Buddhist notion of
enlightenment. If anyone out there has more information or can confirm
this, I'd appreciate it. I think that the main characters of each story,
beginning with Seymour and ending with Teddy, are at various stages of
enlightenment, Teddy having reached enlightenment, and at the end of the
story escaping the birth/death/re-birth cycle. There is a lot of evidence
for this theory in the stories themselves, which I would be happy to detail
if there is interest...but I'm sure some of you picked up on it anyway, so I
won't bother.
-Micaela
(in Vermont)
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Subject: Re: An ocean full of bacce balls
On Wed, 01 May 2002 19:36:55 -0400 Jive Monkey <monkey_jive@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I believe "Nine Stories" is also known as '"For Esme - with Love and
> Squalor" and Other Stories.'
I know... that was the edition I read first... but I seem to recall
reading that he broke with his British agent over the changes, or
something. It was details on Salinger's reaction I was looking for.
Thanks for trying, though. This always happens to me: I read things out
of interest and then when I want to quote them I can never remember
where I got the information. Never mind.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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