Re: BANANAFISH digest 86
Nestor007@aol.com
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 15:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 97-09-02 11:52:41 EDT, you write: ellen b. in Digest #86
> hi all,
> i read this list with great interest, but i suspect i am the oldest person
> on
> it. i remember the 1950s, and believe me, it was not "easy" or "a cliche"
> to
> be young, single and pregnant in those years. the difference in our
culture
> then, when compared with today (or for that matter just a decade later) is
> extraordinary. i have no idea what salinger was thinking when he wrote
(nor
> can anyone but he himself). what is extraordinary about his stories is
that
> so many people are so drawn to them, have ideas about them, want to talk
> about them, so many years after they were written. truly great short
> stories
> always have this response.
I can be pretty sure of my position here for when you say "i remember the
1950s, and believe me, it was not "easy" or "a cliche" to be young, single
and pregnant in those years. " for I was none of the above (y,s&p) I was in
my 30s (old?) married with 2 kids - I read Salinger - in th50s; his
characters helped me to understand the young confused (!) people that I was
working with (supervising) I was able if not to speak the language or fully
understand; I was more tolerant - it worked - I was sucessful.
So, by 'sure of my position' I meant to claim the "i am the oldest person .
. ." title being at present on the north side of 75 (yep - seventy-five) 'n
that is old.
Anybody older'n that? Speak up - what brought you here? Nestor007
N.B. also the gender of a 'nestor' (lookitup) ; } ahhhh the Ego . . .