Re: the hobgoblin of mean minds


Subject: Re: the hobgoblin of mean minds
From: Otto Sell (o.sell@telda.net)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 06:03:22 GMT


No, in "Seymour an "Introduction" as well as in "Zooey" the suicide during
the 1948 holiday is mentioned.
'... Same name, different bloke ...' - this is definitely wrong.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: the hobgoblin of mean minds

>
> '... Same name, different bloke ...'
>
> '... now what do you mean by that? ...'
>
> The same thing, I believe, as others when they write
> about the dangers of trying to make all the components
> of the Glass saga consistent with each other.
>
> I'm unfamiliar with the chronology of their publication
> but the different stories must have emerged over quite
> a period of time. I suspect that Salinger has had a number
> - perhaps, like many writers,quite a small number - of core
> ideas, personalities, themes, to which he has to return
> repeatedly to capture them with ever greater clarity.
> If they are vital enough to give life to a body of work,
> they will also have the tendency to develop & change between
> his visits. The artist himself is developing - so that one is left
> then with quite a fluid picture - maturing ideas being worked
> on by a maturing writer.
>
> The underlying themes may remain essentially unchanged:
> the inexplicable suicide, the eccentrically gifted family, the saving
> grace of the innocent child, & so on. But new aspects & truths
> will have emerged after twenty years so that the later versions can
> only be cramped & shackled by attempts to make them fit all
> the given details of the earlier.
>
> I doubt if the artist is as concerned with making his creation
> consistent as, say, the scholar-detective in finding oversights
> & incoherencies. He is too excited by his latest insight.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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