Miscellanea

Lomanno (lomanno@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 07 Nov 1998 19:41:25 -0500

Since many posts sparked my interest this time, I've decided to lump my
responses into one big mega-post:

Scottie B. wrote:

> Except, Matt, that I don't really have time for the hammer, 
>         the thongs & the 8 inch nails, are you really serious in your plea 
>         for urbane, intelligent conversation ?  Doesn't your heart sink when 
>         you open yet another earnest disquisition on the Australian Post 
>         Structuralist view of Cosmic Blandness ?

Matt already responded to this post, but I'd like to second the motion
that refraining from personal attacks does not equal Cosmic Blandness.
Lively (and even argumenative) discussions about the SUBJECTS at hand
leave no one with hurt feelings and unkind opinions about our list, and
each other. 

I think what we all need is one big cyber-group-hug!  :)

Dave Koch wrote:

> (I've been walking around for a month or so with this sort of
> soothing hatred of John Glenn building in the pit of my stomach and then
> the NYT articulated exactly why in an editorial last week; I hope the same
> kind of thing will happen here, too.)

Please tell me about this hatred of yours for John Glenn because in the
darkest corners of my mind, I think I have shared your feelings. Why do
you hate him, and what did the NYT editorial say that helped you?

As far as the "1950's" style you're trying to get to, I always lump
Salinger with Vonnegut and even Hemingway, to a point. I think it's the
matter-of-fact, no-fluff tone. They just tell it like it is. That's
probably not what you're looking for because it has nothing to do with
the 1950's, but I thought I'd throw in my opinion.

Jente Algoed wrote:

> I just read the news that Chapman, John Lennon's killer, will be free by 
> the year 2000, a year before the 50th celebration of CITR.
> We all know that Chapman was reading CITR the time he killed the former 
> beatle. What is the bananafish-listmembers opinion on the influence of 
> CITR in this brutal murder?
> 

I used to know this, but I seem to have forgotten: did Chapman think he
was Holden (i.e. the Catcher in the Rye)? Was he "saving" John Lennon
from something? Please remind me of the connection between Catcher and
Lennon. I think it is fascinating (in a horrific sort of way).

Your bleeding-heart-tree-hugging-liberal-commie-left-wing-hippie,
--Kari