Re: Maestroes in Paris

 
 Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu> wrote:
but it wasn't
hostile or cynical at all. I think JDS even nominates himself as head
of worldwide "Papa" fan clubs.

i think sublette or baker might quote bits of the 1946 letter; but not sure.

holden says:

"What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book *A Farewell to Arms* last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could like a phony book like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or that one he's so crazy about, *The Great Gatsby*. D.B. got sore when I said that, and said I was too young and all to appeciate it, but I don't think so. I told him I liked Ring Lardner and *The Great Gatsby* and all. I did too. I was crazy about *The Great Gatsby*. Old sport. That killed me. Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. [shades of *Dr. Strangelove*] I'll volunteer for
  it, I swear to God I will."

i imagine hemingway wasn't known as ernie ever. yet one thinks of the piano player in 'the catcher'. speaking of the Lunts, holden says:

"They acted a little bit the way old Ernie, down in the Village, plays the piano. If you do something *too* good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off."

and buddy glass writes in 's:ai':

"Maybe it's partly because I'm forty and I think it's high time all the elderly boy writers were asked to move along from the ballparks and the bull rings."

--kim

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Received on Sat Nov 2 17:17:41 2002