Subject: RE: The Salinger link to life game...
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 09:54:09 GMT
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From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Tim O'Connor" <oconnort@nyu.edu>
Sent: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:36:34 -0400
To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Re: The Salinger link to life game...
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
me, zazie:
yep. At school, I was sometimes 'harassed' by some ppl to the point
i wanted to take a baseball bat and beat them up. yep. But the way i found to
deal with them, was to kinda smile mysteriously when ever i had to walk pass
them and ignore them utterly. I dunno if/whether this had any effect on
them, but it certainly had on me, i felt better.
Z.
PS
it sure looked it simply PASSED the North Tower by instead of hitting it, didn't it?
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