Re: second opinion
Win Boogie (WinBoogie@aol.com)
Fri, 01 May 1998 08:58:34 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 98-05-01 05:01:39 EDT, you write:
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Yes - that is after he had written about the Caulfields on and off for ten
years. I find the work I'm doing now more worthy of my time than the stuff
I was writing ten years ago (true, I was ten at the time ... (: )
Here's an interesting question : Would the Glasses exist without the
Caulfields - or at very least, would we have heard of them ?
>>
Remember that he hasn't ever allowed the original stories about the
Caufields to be republished. He spoke at the time of Hapworth of having more
to the say on the brood of Beesie and Les. I've been wondering lately, with
the latest strings concerning the anti-Glass sentiments, what these people
think JD would have to publish these days. A narrative picking up at Good Old
Phoebe's Graduation? I doubt it. We'd be more likely to see a tale of Waker's
paractical jokes in seminary, or Boo-Boo's conversion to Connecticut housewife
after a bout of sleeping on a bed of nails.
Over the years of trying to explain my fascination with Salinger, I have
come up with a standard rap. it goes like this; yeah Salinger wrote Catcher
and it was a huge hit. then he started writing these quirky stories about God,
centering on a family with a suicide victim saint at its center. the public
started clamoring for more of the cute snot nosed adolescent in Catcher.
Salinger began to make the God stories more difficult, people complained more
for a return to The Kid and he stopped publishing.
This is pretty much my opinion on the absence of our good buddy JD for past
33 years. It's good to be Back.
Robert