Subject: Re: Streaming Audio, Anyone?
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 18:18:26 GMT
>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.)
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