Subject: Re: The Salinger link to life game...
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 11:36:34 GMT
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:03:47AM +0800, Will Hochman wrote:
> ... laugh a bit more...I was wondering if
> it would be fun for bananafish to describe parts of their real lives
> in terms of some aspect from Salinger's fiction?
OK, I'll bite. I empathize with Zooey's situation of having to read
relentlessly awful scripts and having to go to meetings about them and
to discuss them as if they have worth, when in his heart he believes
them to be tripe.
And he treats the scripts very casually (e.g., reading them in the
tub) and without respect, because he has no respect for the process
behind them.
I often find myself in similar positions, and try (very hard) to laugh
at it rather than getting irritated. Because getting irritated does
no good for anyone, including the people around you. But learning to
laugh about adversity at least feels good inside, and may have
benefits associated with people you see and touch.
Or so it seems to me.
--tim
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