Subject: Re: Streaming Audio, Anyone?
From: Scout Thompson (one38@one38.org)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 22:32:03 GMT
The Connection is an excellent program and deals with a wide
variety of topics, including etymology, politics, whole shows
on puns, Chinese Spirituality, etc. I'd encourage you all to
tune in on the web when you can, its always a good show. Chris
Lyden is the host, tonight its an interview with Pablo Picasso's
former lover Françoise Gilot, a painter in her own right who has
recently earned herself a medallion of some sort.
As for making me want to puke, there was a line on Northern
Exposure a few weeks ago; something along the lines of why we
feel
its appropriate in our culture to talk about sexuality, tummy
tucks
and serial killers but inappropriate and even offensive the
minute
we start to talk about spirituality or ones longing for God.
Its quite an excellent sitcom.
Also your bloodlust is understandable. Salinger will of course
live
to be 108 and probably will publish 1 story a year for 25 years.
Meaning I will be the ripe old age of 75 when his final tale is
published- but the longer he lives, the more stories we'll have.
So hush! :)
I just picked up a copy, I'll filter through for clues and
interesting tidbits. For those who'd rather not know, I'll
include
"DC" in the subject field so you can delete them.
-s.
Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> >Those of you interested in hearing a very good interview with
> >Margaret Salinger, the below link is to a radio interview here in
> >Boston.
>
> You're right, Scout, it is very good. I especially liked the way that the
> interviewer (whose name I have now forgotten) pushed back at Ms. Salinger
> every time she made a sweeping pronouncement-- made her defend her
> statements, regardless of whose daughter she was.
>
> I don't remember who said it a few days ago, but I found myself feeling a
> little bloodthirsty too when she spoke of the filing system in his little
> office in the woods, cross-indexed with dots indicating which stories that
> are finished and which ones need editing for the day he dies.
>
> So are we supposed to say: so die already? The man's probably incredibly
> healthy, what with his urine-drinking ways.
>
> (If I were on a stage right now, I feel sure that now is about the time when
> people would start tossing vegetables at my head.)
>
> On another, somewhat related note, I have a question: Scottie has made
> reference to Count Leo Tolstoy's famously bad marriage, and reference was
> made to the same on the program. Anyone care to enlighten me as to what the
> story is there?
>
> Margaret Salinger used that reference to back up her statement that for some
> people, only a celibate lifestyle is appropriate.
>
> Wow.
>
> Pretty harsh judgement, methinks. How does anyone know what they will
> become? Or whether they will be a good parent or a good husband or a good
> wife? We're inherently flawed, even the most talented among us. We focus
> our microscope on a man who happened to write a handful of eye opening
> stories, and we find that he's not perfect. Much as he tried to be.
>
> I've always believed that the earlier stories, like Bananafish, are written
> by a man who is closed off and hates the world. The later stories, though.
> The later stories show a love for everything, even ridiculous women who want
> you to love a cat in bad movies. We're all Christ, buddy. You love us all.
> How much more spot-on can you get?
>
> I don't know. The word phoney has been lobbed around a good deal lately, but
> I'm not so sure that's the case here. Through sheer force of will, it seems
> like the man tried to live what he believed. But sometimes the desire just
> isn't enough. Who's to blame for that? And does that automatically
> predestine that a man should live alone because some part of him isn't
> necessarily whole?
>
> I don't think so. And so no, I don't think that anyone can know, and nor
> can they make any kind of judgement. I have all sorts of people telling me
> how to live my life everyday, but all that I can do when I get up in the
> morning is do the best I can. It's just not for anyone else to judge. It's
> between you and whomever you deem God.
>
> Geez. I hope that I didn't make anyone want to puke. I certainly feel
> borderline right now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecilia.
>
> Oh, and welcome to new list members Matt S. and Victoria. (Don't worry
> about punctuation, Victoria. If you stick around here for long enough,
> it'll become apparrent why I tease Paul K. about it.)
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
> Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
> http://profiles.msn.com.
>
> -
> * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
> * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
---e. - * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Sun Oct 01 2000 - 14:44:36 GMT