Re: real life experience

James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 15:44:01 -0400 (EDT) 

I've really been enjoying your posts today, Thor, especially the suicide
one, I appreciate the honesty, and I would add to your comments below
that Antolini was half lit as well, so perhaps given to a more external
show of affection than would otherwise come from him.

Jim

On Wed, 12 May 1999 10:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Thor Cameron
<my_colours@hotmail.com> writes:
>If you're referring to his teacher, I don't think he WAS making sexual 
>
>moves.  I think it was a tender man, perhaps a former catcher himself, 
>& 
>Holden's paranoia/teen homosexual panic misunderstood it.
>My opinion,
>because I also was there,
>
>Thor
>
>
>>Thor, you bring up a good point about salinger.  I have never had a 
>suicide
>>in my family, but there is a different subject I would like to 
>address.  In
>>Catcher In the Rye, this guy starts "making the moves" on Holden 
>while he's
>>sleeping.  I had a similar thing happen to me.  No...I had the EXACT 
>same
>>thing happen to me.  Exactly!  Either the dude read Catcher in the 
>Rye and
>>then started "keepin' it real" while I was sleeping, or Salinger had 
>>someone
>>do this to him.  It's definitely not fictional.  It's absolutely too 
>>accurate
>>to be made up.
>>
>>  - Adam
>>
>>In reply to:
>>
>>I've read every story except Seymour: Intro.  I'm still 20 pages away 
>from
>>it.  In Bananafish, Am I the only one who is disturbed by Seymour?  
>The
>>first time reading, I felt the nausea in my gut long before the 
>surprise
>>ending.  There is something fundamentally WRONG here.  The same is 
>true of
>>Catcher, BTW.  It is disturbing to me.  My brother committed suicide, 
>& I'm
>>telling you, the intriguing thing about Salinger's suicide families 
>is that
>>they are REAL.  There must have been such asn incident close to him 
>or 
>>there
>>is no way that he could know how people react & change.
>>What I'm saying is: Salinger is good because he writes the truth.  
>>Rambling,
>>sorry.
>>
>>Thor
>
>
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