Re: Teddy and Booper
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 19:17:39 +1000
citycabn wrote:
> ----- Camille wrote:
> It's
> >always interested me that in S:AI Salinger/Buddy admits that Teddy is a
> >fictionalised portrait of Seymour --
>
>
> I think you have that wrong. Buddy is talking about only the *eyes* of
> Teddy and Seymour being similar. (Though in fact they are quite
physically
> different; as I feel the personalities of Teddy and Seymour are.)
>
> Question: anyone know which Schopenhauer work and personage JDS is
> referring to in the Seymour eyes section of SAI?
No, there's definitely a reference in there to the fact that the character
of Teddy is `based' on Seymour - it's somewhere in S:AI which, I am
chagrined to admit, I don't currently have a copy of. Buddy speaks about
how although the two characters are physically different, Teddy was sort of
pieced together with equivalencies to aspects of Seymour. Can anyone help
me out here?
P.S. I am equally chagrined to admit I know next to nothing about
Schopenhauer. For an anti-intellectual Salinger can sure make some
high-falutin references (:
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com