Re: second opinion
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 02 May 1998 20:44:20 +1000
> <<
> 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.
No - and nor have I had the stories I wrote when I was ten republished. But
they are in their own way absolutely integral to what I am writing about
and indeed, the way I am thinking, today.
> I've been wondering lately, with
> the latest strings concerning the anti-Glass sentiments,
I wouldn't say that `pro - Catcher' is necessarily `anti-Glass'. In fact as
far as I know I'm the only one who has actually said anything overtly
negative.
> what these people
> think JD would have to publish these days. A narrative picking up at
Good Old
> Phoebe's Graduation? I doubt it.
Sorry. I must have missed something. What's that got to do with it ? And is
it fair to assume that if Phoebe has progressed in time, Boo Boo and Waker
haven't? And I think it's very unfair to categorise Catcher fans as
unequivocally `snot nosed' teenagers - in that you're assuming that all
teenagers are stupid (a stereotype I've spent my career trying to refute),
and that `Catcher' is Salinger Lite. I don't think either of these things
is true. Sometimes I wish he had stuck to a lot of the simplicity he
demonstrated in Catcher and Nine Stories - they are far more truly `Zen'
than a lot of what he later produced.
Also on the Glasses, I heard that a few years back JDS was going to publish
a full length book called `The Fall of the House Of Glass' - galleys were
even distributed - but he pulled out at the last second. Is this true ? Has
anyone read them ?
Camille
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