Re: How to Detect Nuttiness

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IN July of l946, mr. salinger wrote a letter to Hemingways beginning "Dear
Poppa"  and in addition to imagining he might play holden on broadway,
wrote: "How is your novel coming?  I hope youre working hard on it.  Dont
sell it to the movies.  Youre a rich guy.  As Chairman of your many fan
clubs, I know I speak for all the members when I say Down with Gary
Cooper.  Youre working on a new novel, arent you?"

I'm not certain what their famous "chicken" really meant, but I am
guessing that mr. salinger may think more about what writers wrote than
who they were...don't know if he ever wrote to F.Scott, but I do think he
preferred reading him to reading hem, will


On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Kozusko 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.
> 
> What more could you expect from fighting with Hemingway about firearms?
> -- 
> Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
> 

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