Re: BANANAFISH digest 108
Elizabeth J Respess (ejrespess@juno.com)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:12:40 -0400 (EDT)
>sorry to those of you who may not be enjoying this interlude. i >gladly
accept the blame, whether i am entirely responsible or not.
i, too, would have to throw myself on the mercy of our little bananafish
jury on this one. you certainly were not acting alone...
>I gave up trying to read Seymore: and Introduction, but I'll get >around
to reading the latter half of 9 stories soon.
oh, please don't give up on this - it's well worth the struggle. even if
you feel like you have to read every other thing he wrote first, (which i
actually think will help - once anyone becomes more familiar with his
seeming tangents, it's easier to decipher) you can hold a place for it in
the back of your mind until you are again seduced into finishing it.
> My dad is a big Salinger fan, having read all his stuff as it
originally
>appeared in the New Yorker. He had saved an article from the Times >in
February about Hapworth (which my dad suspects he still has in >the New
Yorker for, decomposing in our basement)
wow - what a treasure. my dad is also a big fan, but he found jds in
prison, and needless to say they weren't generous enough to let him keep
the copies he originally read. there was always this lone copy of 9
stories on shelf that i remember seeing as a kid, but never read. i
found jds on my own and then told my dad about it - as it turned out, we
had the same favorite story of the 9 - for esme, with love and squalor.
>"I find it magnificent how beautiful, loose ends find each other in
>the world if one only waits with decent patience, resistence, and >quite
blind strength."
>
>will
okay, now i have to and find the #&$%) thing and stop waiting for it to
be released. i haven't read it yet, and i thought i could hold off, but
the internal pressure to seek it out has now overpowered the external
pressure of, well, laziness to be honest, and I MUST HAVE IT!!