Re: oh the juxtaposition!
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Thu, 07 May 1998 08:37:47 -0600 (MDT)
Camille, if you do read Hapworth and can find an issue of Roofbeam
Magazine, you may enjoy my piece on Hapworth--I think I'm in a minority of
readers who loved this story and would enjoy your feedback...will
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> I had the great excitement today of happening upon the `Hapworth 16' copy
> of The New Yorker in my university library (though they only began
> archiving them in 1950, all the other editions containing Salinger have
> mysteriously disappeared. I hear that's a common phenomena)
>
> I haven't yet read the `weird and exasperating tour de force' but like
> someone else said not long ago, isn't it fascinating reading Salinger in
> the context of the `slick' ? It's so weird to see our poet-seer nestled in
> between Bambi Kramer type cartoons and advertisements for club soda (I was
> almost surprised not to find a reprint of `Sex is Fun - Or Hell!' (: ) A
> couple of my favourite ads : what I thought with delight was an
> accompanying article about Shakespeare (oh ! The juxtaposition!) turning
> out to be an advertisement for Shakespeare brand Cigars, the Japanese hotel
> that offers `Convenient Western Style Accomodation'. and the `East Meets
> West Texas Hibachi Barbeque' with the little graphic of a shish kebab
> spearing a cowboy hat. I bet Salinger had a chuckle about those one.
>
> Unfortunately the one I was especially looking for - `Cosmopolitan' with
> `The Inverted Forest' in it, of which I have only read portions - wasn't
> there. But now my mind is ripe with a potential thesis on `Reading Salinger
> in the Original Context' !
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE
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>