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Cheryl Cline (ccline@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:14:08 -0700 

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Ah, what a weekend.  Not only do two of my favorite authors turn out to be
hoochie papas, but the President of the United States is the worst one of
all. 
Yeah, yeah, I know, professional writers, presidents and so on have a license
to be, uh, eccentric, and I shouldn't pry with dirty fingers into the True
Love
that Salinger and Maynard shared, but I like having some respect for my
favorite authors.  And for leaders of the country.

I don't know...all of Salinger's worship of youth seemed so lovely before, and
now I can't help but seeing the carnal possibilities in it.  Every one of
Salinger's Nine Stories features a child.  And, although I respect but don't
believe the pedophilic view of Seymour in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," I'm
beginning to suspect everything he's written.

As for Salinger publishing whatever may be locked up in some secret vault,
well, that reminds me of a scene in The Fountainhead  (yeah, yeah)....I always
thought that the greatest scene in the book is where the character of
Dominique
shatters a statue to prevent any stupid people from seeing it.   Thousands of
phonies have already read Catcher.  Something tells me that Salinger just
might
destroy his work before he lets any more of us mortals read it.

There's also the possibility that it all sucks.  

Cheryl

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Ah, what a weekend.  Not only do two of my favorite authors turn out to be hoochie papas, but the President of the United States is the worst one of all.  Yeah, yeah, I know, professional writers, presidents and so on have a license to be, uh, eccentric, and I shouldn't pry with dirty fingers into the True Love that Salinger and Maynard shared, but I like having some respect for my favorite authors.  And for leaders of the country.

I don't know...all of Salinger's worship of youth seemed so lovely before, and now I can't help but seeing the carnal possibilities in it.  Every one of Salinger's Nine Stories features a child.  And, although I respect but don't believe the pedophilic view of Seymour in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," I'm beginning to suspect everything he's written.

As for Salinger publishing whatever may be locked up in some secret vault, well, that reminds me of a scene in The Fountainhead  (yeah, yeah)....I always thought that the greatest scene in the book is where the character of Dominique shatters a statue to prevent any stupid people from seeing it.   Thousands of phonies have already read Catcher.  Something tells me that Salinger just might destroy his work before he lets any more of us mortals read it.

There's also the possibility that it all sucks. 

Cheryl

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