Shower Curtains Wins (or is leading)
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:28:06 -0700
As of 4:25 p.m. (California time), *my* favorite post, dated October 20,
1999, is *still* Craig King's "Shower Curtains". (Just in case you might be
wondering.)
-----Original Message-----
From: craig king <ck31@ukc.ac.uk>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:55 AM
Subject: Shower Curtains
>ello,
>
>today i somehow struck up a conversation with a stranger in the library
>about salinger.
>
>she hadn't read any of his books and i mentioned franny and zooey, my
>favourite, with its little pink cover and water-stained pages from the time
>i read it beginning to end in the bathtub and almost collapsed when i
>emerged as the heat had weakened my legs. she asked why i liked it. and i
>told her about this marvellous scarlet shower curtain with canary-yellow
>sharps, flats and so on all over it. and that if the bathroom in which
zooey
>reluctantly chats to bessie about franny ever dims in my memory there's
>always this vivid scarlet and yellow shower curtain with zooey on one side
>and bessie on the other, a cigarette in her mouth and a frown on his face.
>that's what sprang to mind, first off, before anything.
>
>i LOVE this shower curtain. it is the shower curtain of all shower
curtains.
>weirdly, somewhere at the heart of that precious little book, for me, is
>this damn curtain with its strong colours and lengthy dialogues.
>
>now my damn shower curtain insists on trying to attach itself to me when
i'm
>trying to wash my hair. and it is the most ugly of non-colours. at least
>there is someone in the fictional world with a curtain worth talking about.
>
>craig
>
>