Re: The Faqs

Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Mon, 09 Nov 1998 15:10:15 -0500

At 13:14 11/09/98 -0500, Matt Kozusko wrote:
>[...]
>                                  Muriel ("material?"), like her mother,
>is shallow, fashion-conscious, and unwilling to learn German in order to
>read delicate, world-weary poets like Rilke.
>[...]
>                       Thus, the apple, the intellectual treasure, is a
>component all along, beginning as simple "genius" in Joe Varioni and
>Raymond Ford and progressing through the Seymours and on into Teddy, by
>which time, as Zooey nicely reminds us, Salinger's geniuses have figured
>out how to be unsmart.


Isn't Rilke the poet Lane Coutell and Ray Sorenson mention in the opening
scene of "Franny"?  Would this possibly hark back to Seymour's disappointment
in Muriel in "Bananafish"?


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