Re: First things first, and second, and third.

--- David Poulin <onetenpercent@mail.com> wrote:
>
> 1) In "Seymour," what does
> Seymour mean when he is advising Buddy to get "all
> his stars out"? Is there a definitive answer anyone
> can give? If not, how do you, my fellow Salinger
> enthusiasts, interpret it?

as i recall seymour advises buddy to write with 'all
his stars out' after lamenting the fate of flaubert,
who wrote his exquisite novels but whose letters read
waste, waste, waste. flaubert, according to seymour,
didn't write his heart out.

to write with all of one's stars out is, i think, to
be in that state of intoxicated clarity which is
analogous to standing on a piece of earth's holy
ground, embraced by the gracious mystery of gravity,
the heavens (unsullied by clouds) filled to
overflowing with thronging stars.

"... No, but the nights as well! the lofty, the
summer/nights,--but the stars as well, the stars of
the earth!/Oh, to be dead at last and endlessly know
them,/all the stars! For how, how, how to forget
them!"

--rainer maria rilke, the 7th 'duino elegy'.

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Received on Mon Nov 11 17:23:21 2002