delicacy

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	I've just read Will Hochman's thoughts on Joyce Maynard's 
	thing with Salinger.

	And I don't doubt this is the moment when I'd be advised to jump 
	before I'm thrown. 

	But.  For God's sake.  Does no one else find the smell of incense 
	overwhelming ?

	To accomplish what he did, Salinger (sorry, MR Salinger...
	MR Salinger... Mr Salinger...  Strewth...) had to have the toughness 
	of old campaign boots & the barefaced cheek of a sideshow hustler. 
	That's what it *always* takes to write a good book in the first 
	place & then, even more so, to shove it & the other bits & pieces 
	through the corridors of publishing into the uplands of money & 
	celebrity.

	To treat him now as a lama of unimaginable decrepitude & fragility 
	seems to me both laughable & demeaning to the man himself.  
	Just because some old pop-eyed groupie reappears with memories 
	of yesteryear need we look on it as something like the Rending of 
	the Veil in the Temple ?

	Scottie B.

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