Re: BANANAFISH digest 119
randy royal (randyr@mailhub.jaxnet.com)
Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:07:34 +0000
then those who don't wish to read it can delete it. please post this,
for the sake of the continuation literary intelluctuality.
as far as i can tell, the analyis was acurate and completly
plausible.
~randy
> i disagreed with this the first time it was posted, and i disagree with
> it now. the only reason i didn't say anything about it before is that my
> explanation of why i don't believe it is so long i wouldn't post it here,
> and on this list it's not easy to get away with making statements you
> can't back up. however, since it has come up again i might as well throw
> it out there. this exact description of seymour's demise does happen
> more often than not i'm afraid. but i'm not disagreeing with this as a
> possible analyzation of the story - it's may or may not be salinger's
> reasoning. i'm disagreeing with it as an analyzation of life. and i
> don't remember who originally posted this idea, so if god forbid it was
> the same person who wrote about raging against the dying of the light,
> PLEASE know that this is nothing personal. so, yet again, i am
> expressing my cognitive dissidence and opening myself up for friendly
> attack, bananafish style, with the hopes we don't drive anyone nuts going
> back and forth about it. i love to hear everyone's opinions and
> exchanges of them, but for just this once, i'm hoping i can slip this one
> in unnoticed.
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