RE: Alsen's new book

I am a recent Salinger reader and if I ran across Hapworth first, I would
never would have bothered to read him again.

Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Johnson [mailto:haikux2@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:40 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: Alsen's new book

robbie wrote:

> But genius is
> unrealistically deified, I
> believe.

i agree. and it's one of the major flaws of the glass
saga.

> I doubt very much that the seven-year-old
> Seymour of Hapworth can
> exist, ever, under any circumstances.

probably only in the mind of jds.

> My only suggestion is that, however
> reasonable OR absurd it is for
> Buddy to have written the letter, it cannot but be
> MORE absurd for little
> Seymour to have written it.
>

point taken. and i would like to say i don't 'like'
'hapworth'; it was a huge disappointment; an artistic
misstep; a going off the rails....

thanks for responding, robbie.

kim

kim

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