Re: Salinger page

gpaterso@richmond.edu
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:18:19 -0400

At 19:34 09/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone seen the Salinger web page from Japan?? I was just cruising
>around doing a "Salinger" search, and I ran across this page evidently 
>created out of a Japanese university. Here's the address:
>
>http://www.shimonoseki-cu.ac.jp/~uekura/
>
>(Sorry, I don't know how to do that fancy link-thing). Anyway, it's 
>FULL of quotes from "Catcher," and I'm wondering how that's possible
>given the past uproar with direct Salinger quotations. Do you think he
>just doesn't know about it yet, or is it somehow OK since it's not from
>the U.S? Just thought it was interesting.

He released a collection titled (and including) _The Inverted Forest_
in Japan but not in the US.  Perhaps he deems a partially Buddhist
nation more worthy than we lowly Americans.  Teddy certainly does.


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