Re: Salinger, Dylan, and more Salinger

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT)

Actually, due to computer enhancement and thanks to some pretty accurate 
measurements at the scene, we know that Dean's Little Bastard was going 
about 2 miles BELOW the speed limit, while the other car was going 
nearly ten above.  Just an interjection.

Thor



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






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