Jumping in
Jonathan Moritz (Jonathan.Moritz@utas.edu.au)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:42:49 +1100
I know what you mean, Lauren, about the difficulty of "jumping in" to these
conversations which don't seem to have much to do with Salinger anyhow.
It's Nice to allow digressions when people are getting all fired up, but
it's even Nicer when one can follow the thread and it's relevance to our
common interest on this group, Salinger.
How about this...
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Someone said to me, "There are plenty of fish in the sea."
But I don't want to live in the sea.
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Are Salinger's characters always "fish out of water" ? What do we
Bananafishers think? Seymour was contemplating taking the plunge, Teddy
watched the orange peel on the seas and someone screamed over the empty
pool, Boo Boo and Lionel stays afloat in the dinghy but that key-ring of
Seymour's sunk. But Zooey was in his element in a bathtub, with his knees
as little islands.