Re: bananafish OR banana fish
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:50:06 +1000
citycabn wrote:
> "At 'The New Yorker', there had been some discussion among the editors
about
> whether the word 'bananafish,' a word Salinger made up, should be printed
as
> one word or as two. On January 13, 1948, Salinger wrote to Gus Lobrano,
a
> highly respected rising star at the magazine who edited the story, to
tell
> him that it should be spelled as one word because it looked more
nonsensical
> that way."
>
> -- "Salinger: A Biography," by Paul Alexander, Renaissance Books, 1999
(p.
> 125)
... ah Salinger, at last the true evidence that you deliberately write in
koans (:! What do you think of the biography, Bruce? Were my initial
instincts about it right or wrong?
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com