Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 08:29:54 -0400 (EDT)
It was said:
> > > How about James Dean?
> >
> > Car too fast, around corner, dead rebel.
>
> OK, I concede that, but :
One tiny point I feel compelled to raise is that the stretch of road on
which he was killed was about as straight a road as possible. A man who
was probably blinded by the setting sun and didn't see a speeding silver
car in the glare of the setting sun made a left turn directly in the path
of Dean's (probably speeding) Porsche, so while Dean may have been
speeding, he wasn't taking turns on the proverbial two wheels.
All the conjecture in the paragraph above is because there are not many
actual facts known; people involved are either dead or more silent than
Salinger friends, and police at the time were less able than they are now
to perform accurate crash-site analyses to piece together facts about the
speed and impact. Suffice it to say that when an aluminum racing-model
Porsche strikes an old Ford station wagon nearly head-on, splendid German
engineering is for once defeated roundly. 8-)
Obligatory Salinger reference: He doesn't drive a Porsche.
--tim