Subject: Re: anyone have a good picture of a bananafish?
From: Valerie (kate.beown@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 05:05:06 EDT
Yesterday I did some researches on the french web, and yes, a fish called
bananafish does exist, but I haven't found any picture of it. By the way, I
also discovered that there are a soldier-fish and an angel-fish. Just by the
way...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: anyone have a good picture of a bananafish?
> well, yah :). I suspect Salinger/Seymour heard of some exotic fish and
> made up a story about how it dies, undoubtedly tickled by its name and
> wanting to make another point :). That's my guess, anyway. I'm still
> curious about the initial referent, though, like Valerie. I know it's
> really irrelevant to Salinger's fiction...just curious.
>
> Jim
>
> Patrick Wong wrote:
> >
> > --- Valerie <kate.beown@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > > my question is stupid, for sure, but does a fish
> > > called 'bananafish' exist
> > > in real life? I'm just wondering...
> >
> > Yes. It is called a "human being." Or so I would be
> > led to believe. The whole gluttony thing seems to fit
> > in.
> >
> > Of course, there may also be some kind of exotic fish
> > out in the warm waters of the Pacific named a
> > bananafish, although I would strongly doubt that such
> > a species would indulge in dozens of bananas, get
> > stuck in tiny caves, and die painful deaths.
> >
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> > "That which is truly wisdom will seem like foolishness to a fool, and
that which is truly foolishness will seem like wisdom to a fool."
> > - Proverbs
> >
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