Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger

Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 19:10:45 -0400 

> 
> I think Will Hochman grasped my intentions concerning Salinger and Dylan
> more clearly than Robert Morris.

   Actually I don't think it was a case of me not grasping what you were
after, I absolutely disagreed with it. I initially intended to pick your
post apart a little bit more, but opted not to.



 I meant no offense by comparing the
> two; in fact, I am a huge fan of both, and that's why I saw similarities
> between them. By calling Dylan "reclusive" I only meant that he kept his
> private life to himself. This was by no means an insult. What's wrong
> with being reclusive? I know I am. No need to get angry!  :)
> 

   It seems like you feel that Dylan is somehow not giving all that he
should to his fans. Dylan's probably playing somewhere tonight if you want
to see him. Your local record store probably doesn't even stock half of his
catalogue. I don't give a fuck about who cuts Zimmy's hair or whatever is
you feel you're missing out on with Mr Dylan's reclusiveness.

> The media has a way of sucking the life out of people, and everyone in
> the public eye has a different way of dealing with it. You don't like
> the Dylan analogy?

   No I don't.

 >How about Elvis Presley?

   I would say that either Col. Tom or Hollywood sucked the life out of
him. I have a hard time seeing the public ruining him.

 >How about Ernest Hemingway?

   I thought it was a shotgun and booze that did him in?


> How about James Dean?

  Car too fast, around corner, dead rebel.
 
>Marilyn Monroe?

  Too many pills= Dead past her prime sex symbol.

 >Kurt Cobain? 

   derriviative musician with a heroin habit to cure tummy ache+ shotgun=
dead media whore

An argument could
> be made that these people died as a result of fame and media
> exploitation. 

  You know who I think deserves this designation?  Lennon. He's the only
one in recent times I can think of to actually earn the title of artistic
martyr. Saying that any of these other self destructive megalomaniacs as
suffered the pressures of media and the public turns my stomach. 

        Dylan's a song and dance man, that's it. 

                   Robert Morris
                   winboog@gis.net