Re: BANANAFISH digest 135
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> From: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> To: Discussions of J.D. Salinger's work <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
> Subject: BANANAFISH digest 135
> Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 1:00 AM
>
> BANANAFISH Digest 135
>
> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) An introduction and a farewell...
> by Intel98@aol.com
> 2) salinger
> by zedicm@aliceoy.isracom.co.il (Zeev)
> 3) Re: salinger
> by Dan Kissane <dfk@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu>
> 4) Re: JDTV
> by Steve Gallagher <sgallagher@lasersedge.net>
> 5) More on Seymour
> by "PODESTA,Lesley" <Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Intel98@aol.com
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: An introduction and a farewell...
> Message-ID: <971023133543_-2064498867@mrin45.mail.aol.com>
>
> I am new to Bananafish, and this will be my only post, as I have an
> enormous respect for the sanctity of the author. As an aspiring writer, I
> look at JDS' career as a guide for how I'd want things to evolve for
myself,
> if I cold be so fortunate....
>
> I am 31 (Seymour's age at time of suicide) and I got reacquainted with
> Catcher in
> the Rye 6 months ago. I am consumed with it; I see so much "selling out"
in
> the
> world today that I am repulsed by it. Everyone needs to sell out, of
course,
> but I see a better way....
>
> Earlier this month, I found on the Web an interesting piece of
reading; it
> came from a movie that couldn't have been conceived without Catcher. I
don't
> want to violate the first disclaimer of this discussion group by posting
it.
> But it has inspired me to try and create a world in which HC would have
> enjoyed very much, a world which couldn't have been possible just a few
years
> ago. And I feel that this idea might appeal to anyone who takes the TIME
(the
> most undervalued asset in all of creation) to be a part of this
discussion
> group.
>
> If anyone would like to Email me, I can forward this piece of writing
> that I mentioned, and I can elaborate on my ideas. Please do not
communicate
> with me through Bananafish; I will continue to subscribe but I just want
my
> privacy right now, which is what every writer should have. Thanks very
> much.... DJS
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:37:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: zedicm@aliceoy.isracom.co.il (Zeev)
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: salinger
> Message-ID: <Chameleon.971023215105.zedicm@NOHOST.isracom.co.il>
>
> will you please help me to find in the Internet article or a
> lecture dealing with Salinger writing? ( i would like to know
> more about his writing ,not his life). it is his stories i am
> interested more,
>
> yiurs sincerly
> Ditsa
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:05:02 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dan Kissane <dfk@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: salinger
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Zeev wrote:
>
> > will you please help me to find in the Internet article or a
> > lecture dealing with Salinger writing? ( i would like to know
> > more about his writing ,not his life). it is his stories i am
> > interested more,
> >
> > yiurs sincerly
> > Ditsa
> >
> >
>
>
> Yahoo does a decent job of this at :
>
>
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Auth
ors
>
> Dan Kissane
> Systems Librarian
> SUNY College at Oneonta
> Oneonta, NY 13820
> dfk@oneonta.edu
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:30:34 +0000
> From: Steve Gallagher <sgallagher@lasersedge.net>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: JDTV
> Message-ID: <344F89BA.F3543028@lasersedge.net>
>
> Straight from Salinger (through lawyers), if I remember talking to
Kinsella
> correctly. Took a class taught by him.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:56:32 +1000
> From: "PODESTA,Lesley" <Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au>
> To: "'Bananafish@lists.nyu.edu'" <Bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
> Subject: More on Seymour
>
> On 6 October DC Spohr attached the message that he thought was the best
> answer he'd ever seen about Seymour ie (I think some of you may be
> looking too hard for the meaning of Seymour, or at least looking in the
> wrong place....)
> I also think it is the best answer I've ever seen and I've been carrying
> a copy around all squashed up in my wallet and I read it in those three
> minute breaks between work, baby, etc.
> Last night I reread Seymour : An Introduction. Aah what a fantastic
> story.What strikes me even more is the dis/connection with the army. On
> the one hand Seymour has this family and there is constant,
> overwhelming detail on family, children, parents - and on the other hand
> there is the almost lifelessness of army, war. I don't know, there is
> just such a contrast between the domestic which seems to be overflowing
> with life and child (See for example Esme) and his bare descriptions of
> his time in the army during WWII. Somehow it helps me make sense of his
> reverence of Muriel & her mother's bond and fascination and happiness
> and his status as a returned serviceman.
> Am I treading old ground here?
> In regard to covers, you may be interested to know that the contemporary
> covers in Australia are silver with black print. The original first
> edition in Oz of Catcher (which I have!) is hideous orange with JDS'
> photo on the back, critics' quotes on the front and the most gruesome
> blurb on the inside cover about this exciting novel asking the key
> questions about today's youth. NO WONDER JDS demanded plain - it is
> truly sacrilege.
> Sorry about my delays in entering discussions - I log in at work and we
> are extremely busy.
>
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