Subject: Re: random story...
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 03:33:29 GMT
I agree with Paul Kennedy. A quiet and secure place is
the best to discover the Catcher. Pete, the places you
mention (church, restaurant...) are just the best ones
to feel like...an anarchist.
Val
--- "Pete(r)" <horanp@kenyon.edu> wrote:
> Fishes,
> This week, while home for Thanksgiving, I went
> into a famous Cincinnati
> chili restaurant and sat down. Suddenly, a bouy who
> could not have been any
> older than 14 caught my eye--he was staring off into
> space, a slight grin on
> his face. In his hand was the edition of "Catcher"
> with the orange and white
> cover and the carousel horse. Several things caught
> me about this: his face,
> his approximate age, and when/where he was reading
> (i.e. while eating lunch
> with his family in a crowded restaurant). Then it
> seemed to me that the
> perfect time to read "Catcher" are those places
> where it is most
> inappropriate: at the dinner table, at a ballgame,
> Church, etc. The reader
> gets the full effect of the novel this way. Being
> unlike any other book ever
> written, I'm not sure it should be READ like any
> other book either.
>
> My two cents,
>
> Pete(r).
>
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