Re: Last Furlough

Scottie, The Saturday Evening Post, as I recall, gave Salinger more
than one opportunity to appear in it's slick pages. It wasn't pity
that published the beast, nor was it even bullets.

I think Salinger was both the fox and the hedgehog as a writer, but
we can at least agree that pieces of Salinger's fiction are
practiced in the uncollected stories that show the master before his
mastery of the medium. I really enjoy seeing the seeds of later work
in the early stories. Seeing their faults is pretty easy. Salinger's
early work was not well edited and it often lacked complexity that I
see (as part of the fox's art!) in his later work.

will

PS It just so (pun intended) happens that the hand painted tile I
brought back from Radda, Italy pictures "Il Volpe"--the fox. This
little tile, a reject from it makers (Rampini), is one of my
treasures. The animal's pose and my memory of Italy warm me like the
tea often sitting above it. I am probably more of a hedgehog, but I
think foxes make better art. There's a poem. Excuse me while I write
it.

-- 
	Will Hochman
Associate Professor of English
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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