>From Hamilton's A Writing Life, page 76. "Salinger then describes an
interesting-sounding new work he has just completed-six thousand words long
and called "Total War Diary": "a hectic, sweet-and-sour diary-form job done
by an eighteen-year-old girl. She records the history of her own sad,
never-meant-to-be War Marriage (of which I've seen plenty)." It's "loaded
with psychological clues" and is in part modeled on Ring Lardner's "I Can't
Breathe.""
"The Children's Echelon." - (26 pp. of double-spaced typescript with the
by-line J. D. Salinger). A two-part story in the form of eleven diary entries
by Bernice Herndon with the first entry on January 12, her 18th birthday, and
the last on March 25 of the same but unspecified year. With the war in the
background, Bernice changes her opinion about almost everything she
mentions-her friends, family, and the war. In one entry, Bernice, like Holden
Caulfield, mentions that she loved to watch children at the merry-go-round.
Unpublished at Princeton's Firestone Library.
In your opinion, can we assume more than 50% that "The Children's Echelon" is
"Total War Diary?" (I'm going through and taking an inventory of some of
these weird Salinger titles floating around in my head, pardon me.)
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