dead cats
Smmrs@aol.com
Sat, 06 Nov 1999 16:31:04 -0500 (EST)
First of all I want to say that I feel Salinger tells us that solitude is not
only a good thing, it is necessary. He practices what he preaches and I'll be
damned if someone can find a charcter who is "actualized" in one of his
novels thriugh the help of other people. However, as humans, we need others.
People need people. So the situation is to reach a higher level we must be
superintrospective but the end result may be alienation and resulting
insanity.
There is a part in, I think it is RHTRBC, where Muriel "teaches" Seymour how
to smile by spreading his muscles around his cheek with her fingers. I'm
moved and quite shaken after even thinking about this passage. Straight to my
heart...
"she seems to like my face and hands and the back of my neck...:
thank ye