Subject: Re: anyone have a good picture of a bananafish?
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 17:48:27 EDT
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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