Re: Salinger's Laughing Man story
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:13:50 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 97-11-22 01:36:48 EST, you write:
<< >I came across a timber wolf called Armand in Salinger's
>Laughing Man story, from "Nine Stories:For Esme w/Love
>and Squalor." It seemed to me to be something Pynchon
>probably read once or twice in his life. Very nice dual
>narritive structure. The story within a story of Laughing Man
>seems pitched in Harmony with Mason & Dixon.
>Anyone else on the list read this short story by J.D.?
>And can anyone help me stop writing with these strange
>capitalisations that Seem to have come On since my M&D
>readings?
>
>
>Eric Alan Weinstein >>
Mason and Dixon has a Learned Dog, and a Mechanikal Duck, and yes, writing
with these Strange Capitalisations is quite Natural after reading the
d-------d novel.... :)
It's funny how people talk about narratives within narratives as if they were
something new of special...but shoot, Everyone has done it just
about...Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is an extreme example, the
Mousetrap in Hamlet is a more common example, and usually the subnarrative is
just present to shed light on the main narrative...
Jim