Subject: Re: bananafish-digest V1 #295
From: David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Date: Fri May 16 1997 - 13:03:54 GMT
If fans of J.D. Salinger were like the KKK:
MINUTES FROM THE CHURCH OF SALINGER MEETING 5/16/97
1. We all arrived on time wearing our red hunting caps. Sister Rabey had
forgotten to turn hers backward, so we made her leave and come back in again.
2. Chairman Foskett opened the meeting by remarking that it was an
"exquisite day." We all replied, in unison "I’ll exquisite day you, buddy!"
3. Arrangements were made to picket Luke Seeman’s web-site. Brother
Malcolm asked how, exactly, one pickets a web-site. We quickly moved on to
other business.
4. Brother Hochman has graciously allowed us to use his yard for the
"Esquire" burning. B.Y.O.B.
5. Brother White made a banal point and a bad joke, then shut-up for the
rest of the meeting.
6. Sister Angela was able to produce a paperback copy of "Catcher" with
the "Holden at the peep show" cover. Plans are being made to burn it in
effigy on Ian Hamilton’s lawn.
7. Brother Stevenson returned from his pilgrimage to the New York Public
Library with a copy of "Hapworth". Subsequent carbon dating tests revealed
that the story was, in fact, not a xerox of the original publication, but a
bootleg that he received as an e-mail attachment. He was promptly
ex-communicated.
8. Brother Ford said "Some of Pynchon’s work rivals Salinger’s early short
stories." He was subsequently dealt with.
9. Brother Rauchenber caught Brother Gallagher staring at his feet and
being a goddamn sneak about it.
10. The meeting ended and we all made the sound of one hand clapping.
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