Subject: Re: New ending for CITR
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 13:19:36 GMT
Well now.
A couple of fiddley points on this crisp autumn evening.
Hands up all those who, like me – flinching slightly at the hint
of exhibitionism – assumed ‘reify’ was a kind-of-neologism
based on the Latin ‘res’; but had to go & corroborate in the SOD
– only to find one of the shortest of its entries (8 words)
with a sole reference to 1856: ‘to convert mentally into a thing;
to materialize.’ And who then asked themselves: how do you
convert your sense of being into a thing? Not too many of us
can manage that. How about a ferrinstance?
I think you’ll find, Cec, that Harry S. is not to be blame for
‘normalcy’ but the somewhat less appealing Herbert Hoover.
Certainly when Eleanor & Hopkins & Bob Sherwood & myself
used to roll around in the old White House kitchen sniggering at
‘normalcy’, it was Hoover we had in mind. For goodness sake,
at that stage of the game Harry was still back in KC trying
to ingratiate himself with Prendergast & his merry men.
Finally. I think you could all be a bit more charitable about
the poor bloke having a go at rewriting Holden: 'complete failure
... pretty shallow ... exercise in futility... embarrassed on behalf
of the author...’ Can you imagine how he might feel if – as seems
not altogether unlikely for a Salinger enthusiast – he were a lurker
on the list? I myself try always to be moderate & kindly in whatever
comments I make & you might do well to emulate.
Scottie B.
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