Yeah, I just read a couple of the underpublished stories myself, recently, and had a similar experience :) Jim On Tue, 04 May 1999 17:27:25 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> writes: >I just read `the Heart of a Broken Story' - and I was quite amazed >that, at >this early time (1941) the issues of the mature Salinger were >obviously >firmly entrenched even in a little piece of magazine fluff like that >(as >I'm sure he would have regarded it). You can trace a direct lineage >from >this to Hapworth. His obsession with letters, for example. There are >shades >of Jane Gallager in the heroine. Most notably there is his fluidity of >time >- the little vignettes that make up the story are in essence the Glass >stories in miniature - a selection of disparate stories which combine >to >create a greater whole. I'm fascinated, for example, by the alternate >versions of the possibilities seem to cancel each other out, a little >like >how Bananafish is `cancelled out' somewhat by the later Glass stories. >Hey, >there's a doozy. When you think about it, Bananafish is really only >Buddy >presenting one possibility, when you think about it. > >Sure, a lot of Salinger's early stories are trifles, but they reward >serious scrunity. > >Camille >verona_beach@geocities.com >@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 >@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]