Subject: aping one's betters
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 02:40:42 GMT
I'm jolly happy for Cecilia & Paul & all that, but
sometimes I don't know where to look. This morning
I was able to divert my attention by thinking about
literary influences.
Isn't it strange that although the world is crammed
with limp imitations of Joyce (usually by schizophrenic
undergraduates) & even unfunnier parodies of Hemingway
(by drunken & no-hope journalists) - I don't think I've
ever come across an attempt at Salinger in his Glass mode.
A fair number of Holden Caulfields, all right, but you'd
imagine that prolix Buddy Glass voice that beguiles so
many impressionable young minds would have spawned
at least a few would-bes. Yet I don't think I've come
across any.
Anyone else?
Scottie B.
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