Re: good insults make good friends (including extractsfromacomingdrama)
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Tue, 09 Nov 1999 18:27:41 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 11/9/99 6:17:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, Smmrs@aol.com
writes:
<< Sheesh..all this talk about the bible made me want to take a nap for a
bit...so i did.
Why all this blab about a "book" written by who knows and as ambiguous as
ever.
So lets talk about Salinger. On a personal note, what do you thinbk about
his
preference for an organic diet and overall reductionism?. INteresting view
form a guy who owns a BMW (my friends parents have seen him, he lives about
twenty minutes form where htye live)..
>>
Oh lord. I won't get into the textual side here. But I will say that its
legal documents are pretty straightforward (there is always nitpicking, of
course), its poetry is generally simple for poetry, its narrative is about
middling so far as simplicity goes (more so than Salinger but less so than
children's stories), its personal letters and epistles are written with
varying degrees of simplicity, and its apocalyptic literature is less cryptic
than Eliot but generally a pain in the arse.
So far as Salinger's preferences goes...who cares?
Jim