Much Ado About Nutting
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:59:56 -0400
Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> > Salinger only began to think of Hemingway as a nut after the
> > Luger-and-Chicken incident. Prior to that time, he had though of
> > Hemingway as more of a macho, Fitzgerald-hating sort. Something short
> > of nuttiness.
>
> Gee ... I thought that would endear him to Salinger even less, seeing as
> Fitzgerald was such an obvious favourite of Salinger's. Personally speaking
> I'd rather have ten Fitzgeralds than one Hemingway. Never could understand
> all that macho posturing BS.
I tend to agree--but once you get a couple of American writers in Europe
in the war, all that pretense about style and taste and who's worthy and
who's not goes out the window. The letter I am thinking about in which
Sal disparages Hemingway for mistreating the delicate Fitz was, I think,
written before the war--but Sal and Paps did (according to Hamilton)
seek each other out overseas.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu