Subject: Salinger's Dogs
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 19:37:58 GMT
No, I'm not going to research every mention of J.D.'s dogs (without my books
at hand, here, wherever that might *truly* be, there would be no posts from
citycabn (oh lucky you all).
Just a closer for the week to say that Tim's post calls to mind Ian
Hamilton's enjoyable recitation regarding the competing investigations into
Salinger's personal life by 'Time' and 'Life' in the fall of 1961, after
'Zooey' arrived in stores with that dust jacket copy mentioning living with
a dog. Hamilton notes that 'Time' states that Salinger hasn't had a dog in
years (nor of course lived in Westport in years), while 'Life' opts for the
more sensible conclusion that there is at least one dog at the Salinger
Cornish compound and provides a photo of the dog peering out beneath that
wonderful woven-wood fence.
And now Hamilton:
"Nineteen Sixty-one had been a harrowing year for Salinger, but he could
take some satisfaction from the way it ended: with America's two wealthiest
and most resourceful newsmagazines unable to agree on the matter of whether
or not he owned a dog."
(One feels Salinger would be happy to know that we on bananafish almost
never can agree on *anything*.)
As to whether Salinger *really* "stepped on to the platform at Windsor
Station in Montreal", I would hazard a 'yes', based on Salinger's track
record of a more-than-liberal sprinkling of autobiographical facts into his
stories.
He's laughing *now*.
--Bruce
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