RE: My humble Introduction, offered up like my daughter would a cool lima bean


Subject: RE: My humble Introduction, offered up like my daughter would a cool lima bean
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 04:08:27 GMT


Judd,
can you produce your Fathers list of books? For me, it would be also interesting from
an (murky, i admit) academic viewpoint.

Zazie

PS the only anomaly/odd/weird thing in your bayo, which struck me, was the jeb bush part ....

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Subject: My humble Introduction, offered up like my daughter would a cool lima bean

The number of introductions posted to the group seems to be trailing off
quickly so I'll get mine in before the act seems too random.

I've been lurking for several months and recently feel comfortable enough
with the group's dynamics to step up and join in on what has turned out to
be a surprisingly spirited meta-conversation. Also, the recent rash of
defections appears to have left a few gaps that need filling so I'm stepping
up.

My name is Judd Bagley, age 30, born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I
am married with two daughters (ages 3 years and 6 weeks). We have very
recently returned to Utah after a four-year stint in Tallahassee Florida,
where I worked first as a political reporter and then as a press
secretary/speechwriter for the Jeb Bush Administration. Back in SLC, I now
work in public relations in the private sector.

My first real exposure to JDS came in 1995 when I decided to make a
concerted effort to better understand my father’s generation—the so-called
Baby Boomers. At that time in my life I found myself increasingly perplexed
by that peculiar cohort, and increasingly dependent upon understanding them
for the purposes of professional/scholastic advancement. So, one day, I
asked my father to list the works of literature which he felt had the
greatest influence on his generation (especially those that tended to be
assigned reading in high school). He produced a long list, with Catcher on
top; I immediately read it and pretty much felt like that one book shed
enough light on the subject that I could stop there. (Of course I did finish
the list, and as a consequence am a huge Vonnegut fan as well.)

>From that day I have been enthralled by Salinger’s work and have read it all
(including the 22 uncollected stories) several times. My favorites are:
DeDaumier Smith’s Blue Period, For Esme with Love and Squalor, the Laughing
Man, and Catcher, in that order.

I’m really no expert on any of this stuff—have made no attempt at any sort
of scholarship on the subject (I majored in Spanish and Biology)—but
recognize this work as masterful and would hope to contribute something to
the group and I thank whomever is responsible for it.

Judd

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