Subject: Re: bananafish-digest V1 #308
From: helena (helenak@geocities.com)
Date: Wed May 28 1997 - 16:28:57 GMT
Emily said:
> I love "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
> but, like with Reservoir Dogs (the movie), why is it called that? Any ideas?
Isn't it the guy, the brother, in the story who's talking about war and
working in airplane factories and having something wrong with his heart,
and he says that they're going to have a war in which only guys over 65
can fight, and then he says the're gonna have a war with the eskimos.
(Sorry about the dodgy specifics, my copy of Nine Stories is STILL awol.
I am concerned for its safety. I hope it turns up soon, or at least that
whoever has it read and enjoyed...)
> do you
> think Seymour loved Muriel?
Yes. Don't know why I think so, but yes. I, personally, think Muriel is
one of my favourite characters.
Malcs said:
> As far as Reservoir Dogs is concerned, apparently when Tarantino was
> working in the video store still the Louis Malle film Au Revoir, Les
> Enfants had just been released on video and got checked out a lot, but he
> could never get the pronunciation of the title right, so he eventually just
> started calling it "Reservoir Dogs." Or at least, that's the part of the
> legend that *I* read.
That's the part I read too, and I was just waiting until it would come
in useful, and you beat me to it...
I was thinking about the Catcher-As-Screening-Process thing, and I
remembered that my best friend thought F&Z was crap, and I still love
her.
Also, a funny thought occurred to me, what would the Glass family think
of the internet? Buddy is all stuck up in the forest (or wherever)
without even a phone, but he writes epic letters, would he be email
friendly?? (I know it's dumb, but it made me wonder.)
h.
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